All 7 Uses of
yield
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Ever since he could remember, he had been told that his face was ugly, because it was unyielding, and cruel, because it was expressionless.†
Chpt 1.2unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity.†
Chpt 2.3
- It's that unyielding, intractable attitude of yours.†
Chpt 2.4
- She wanted the sight of his unyielding face, the confident face looking at her with the hint of a smile.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- She had faced it, through moments of blinded stillness, in a contest between an unmoving decision and an unyielding pain, a pain to be fought by acknowledgment, by saying: All right, even this.†
Chpt 3.4
- When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it's picked up by scoundrels-and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.†
Chpt 3.7
- She felt with sudden certainty that they feared the precision of his face, the unyielding clarity of his features, the look of being an entity, a look of asserting existence.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up