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rudely disrespectful
- "I thought that you always thought so," she answered, her voice insolently casual.1.5 Part 1 Chapter 5 — The Climax of the D'Anconias (33% in)
- She felt the excitement of solving problems, the insolent delight of taking up a challenge and disposing of it without effort, the eagerness to meet another, harder test.1.3 Part 1 Chapter 3 — The Top and the Bottom (33% in)
- He smiled, the unchanged, insolent, brilliant smile of his childhood.1.5 Part 1 Chapter 5 — The Climax of the D'Anconias (79% in)
- He had followed them and he stood looking at them with the insolence of exaggerated earnestness.1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (79% in)
- They seemed to be applauding the speaker, in insolent defiance of authority.1.8 Part 1 Chapter 8 — The John Galt Line (44% in)
- Dr. Ferris1 eyes flickered briefly to his face; the sparkle of insolence was too swift to be identified with certainty.2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (22% in)
- The third had said, his voice belligerently insolent, that he would attempt the task on a ten-year contract at twenty-five thousand dollars a year-"After all, Miss Taggart, if you expect to make huge profits on that motor, it's you who should pay for the gamble of my time.2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (37% in)
- She saw that the trim, confident girls had a nasty insolence of manner when they spoke to Jim, as if they did not respect him and never had.2.2 Part 2 Chapter 2 — The Aristocracy of Pull (26% in)
- A young man, with a look of alcoholic insolence, staggered past the group and snapped, chuckling, "Learned your lesson, Rearden?"2.2 Part 2 Chapter 2 — The Aristocracy of Pull (43% in)
- He was studying her insolently.2.2 Part 2 Chapter 2 — The Aristocracy of Pull (48% in)
- His voice was slipping into whining insolence.2.10 Part 2 Chapter 10 — The Sign of the Dollar (76% in)
- He looked at her bandages, weighing the question, his glance almost insolent in its open curiosity.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (2% in)
- What are you laughing at?" he asked, seeing the look of relief, of silent laughter that did not seem to be directed at his words-and then, before she answered, he smiled suddenly, as if he had guessed the answer, she saw some particular, intensely personal quality in his smile, which was almost a quality of insolent intimacy-in contrast to the calmly impersonal, casual manner with which he went on.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (34% in)
- He smiled again with that insolently personal quality which now seemed to say that he knew the threat contained in his answer and what it meant to her, then he rose from the table.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (35% in)
- She met his eyes with that insolent glance which is a smile without movement of facial muscles.3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (39% in)
- Dr. Ferris smiled in a manner of innocence and insolence together.3.3 Part 3 Chapter 3 — Anti-Greed (10% in)
- It was not the man's insolence-he had not sought any gratitude, he had not been moved by pity, his gesture had been automatic and meaningless.3.4 Part 3 Chapter 4 — Anti-Life (0% in)
- He pressed the switch of the radio, watching her face openly, intently, almost insolently.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (17% in)
- The same wonder struck him again, when, walking down an alley between the mill structures, he caught sight of a slouching figure whose posture combined an air of insolence with an air of expecting to be swatted: it was his brother Philip.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (34% in)
- It was as if a sum of years hit Rearden in the face, by means of a sensation and a sight: the exact sensation of what he had felt in the cab of the first train's engine on the John Galt Line-and the sight of Philip's eyes, the pale, half-liquid eyes presenting the uttermost of human degradation: an uncontested pain, and, with the obscene insolence of a skeleton toward a living being, demanding that this pain be held as the highest of values.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (40% in)
- She noticed some faces in the crowd staring at her with a peculiar look: with a veiled resentment and the kind of insolent curiosity that made her suddenly conscious of being a woman.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (83% in)
- A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness-to value the failure of your values-is an insolent negation of morality.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (19% in)
- "The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin, "A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (35% in)
- What permits any insolent beggar to wave his sores in the face of his betters and to plead for help in the tone of a threat?3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (72% in)
- Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they 'just feel if —or those who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: 'It's only logic' which means: 'It's only reality.'3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (85% in)
- I'll show all those insolent gangsters, who forget that I am Robert Stadler ....3.9 Part 3 Chapter 9 — The Generator (10% in)
- In the bare, dim hall of reinforced concrete, he was met by a man who might have been an officer, except that his tunic was open at the throat and a cigarette hung insolently in the corner of his mouth.3.9 Part 3 Chapter 9 — The Generator (14% in)
- He was a lanky, nervous man, with loose gestures and an insolent voice, who looked like a side-show barker.3.10 Part 3 Chapter 10 — In the Name of the Best Among Us (77% in)
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