All 9 Uses of
literally
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She had forgotten the literal shape and usage of horsepower; she did not like to see its return.†
Chpt 1.9
- Lillian drifted away from him, as if letting him understand that she did not insist upon his literal attendance.†
Chpt 2.2
- Well, I gave those bitches what they wanted-but what they literally wanted, without the pretense that they expected, the pretense that hides from Them the nature of their wish.†
Chpt 2.4
- If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud-comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.†
Chpt 2.4
- I was the walking delegate of this strike, the leader of the victims' rebellion, the defender of the oppressed, the disinherited, the exploited-and when I use these words, they have, for once, a literal meaning.†
Chpt 3.1
- Literally.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- I won't hold you to it," said Galt, and she felt anger at the tone of his voice, a tone that granted her no hidden significance and answered nothing but the literal meaning of her words.†
Chpt 3.2
- When she faced him at the table, when she saw the earnest, questioning directness of his eyes and the severely literal simplicity of his words, she dropped all attempts at casual prodding, she told him what she wanted to know and why, briefly, impersonally, not appealing for help or for pity, only for truth.†
Chpt 3.4
- Literally.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)