All 50 Uses of
evade
in
Atlas Shrugged
- ...you are free to think or to evade that effort.
Chpt 3.7 *evade = try to avoid
- She liked his face-its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.†
Chpt 1.1
- She wondered why he resented the necessity of dealing with Rearden, and why his resentment had such an odd, evasive quality.†
Chpt 1.1
- How long do you intend to talk in order to evade the issue, Jim?†
Chpt 1.1
- Sitting as a helpless spectator, a minority member, at one of the Board meetings, she felt a strange evasiveness in the air of the room, in every speech, in every argument, as if the real reason of their decision were never stated, but clear to everyone except herself.†
Chpt 1.3
- The action of naming an issue instead of evading it, was so unlike the usual behavior of all the men he knew, it was such a sudden, startling relief, that Rearden remained silent for a moment, studying d'Anconia's face.†
Chpt 1.6
- Now he saw that in postponing this moment for hours, he had not been guilty of evasion: he had not thought of it, because there was nothing to think.†
Chpt 1.7
- I want no pretense, no evasion, no silent indulgence, with the nature of our actions left unnamed.†
Chpt 1.9
- He wondered, for the first time, whether her spite, her sarcasm, the cowardly manner of delivering insults under the protection of a smile, were not the opposite of what he had always taken them to be-not a method of torture, but a twisted form of despair, not a desire to make him suffer, but a confession of her own pain, a defense for the pride of an unloved wife, a secret plea-so that the subtle, the hinted, the evasive in her manner, the thing begging to be understood, was not the open malice, but the hidden love.†
Chpt 1.10
- He remained silent; he seemed to be considering something he knew, but did not wish to tell her; she became certain of it, when he concluded brusquely, in that tone of resentment which conceals an evasion, "No, I don't know anyone I'd care to recommend to you."†
Chpt 2.1
- Whatever the consequences to Lillian, he would have confessed his adultery publicly, there and in that moment, rather than commit the unspeakable act of evading Dagny's eyes, of closing his face into a coward's blankness, of pretending to her that he did not know the nature of his action.†
Chpt 2.2
- Oh, but should you wish to evade a discussion if you have nothing to hide?†
Chpt 2.2
- I've never tried to evade that knowledge.†
Chpt 2.2
- Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choke of what to seek.†
Chpt 2.2
- Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choke of what to seek.†
Chpt 2.2
- A portly man with evasive eyes said loudly, his tone of forced cheerfulness suggesting that his sole concern in any issue was not to let it become unpleasant, "If this is the way you feel about money, señor, I think I'm darn glad that I've got a goodly piece of d'Anconia Copper stock."†
Chpt 2.2
- That woman and all those like her keep evading the thoughts which they know to be good.†
Chpt 2.2
- They keep evading responsibility.†
Chpt 2.2
- The businessmen he met seemed to wish to evade the subject of his trial.†
Chpt 2.4
- Aren't you evading a responsibility?†
Chpt 2.5
- Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand.†
Chpt 2.5
- And he was seeing Lillian's face, as he had seen it in bed beside him, a lifeless face with evasive eyes, with some feeble sneer on its lips and the look of sharing some smutty guilt.†
Chpt 2.5
- And more: this would mean that he, Mitchum, would have to assume responsibility, admit full knowledge of the danger, stand in the open and identify the exact nature of the situation-the one act which the policy of his superiors was based on evading, the one key to their game.†
Chpt 2.7
- The responsibility that James Taggart and Clifton Locey had evaded now rested on the shoulders of a trembling, bewildered boy.†
Chpt 2.7
- They had asked for and accepted Directive 10-289, he thought, they went on living and daily turning away in evasion from the kind of verdicts that the Unification Board was passing on defenseless victims-why shouldn't he now turn away from them?†
Chpt 2.7
- He looked at the door with a sensation of malevolent triumph at the thought of all those voices being defeated by the innocuous figure of his secretary, a young man expert at nothing but the art of evasion, which he practiced with the gray, rubber limpness of the amoral.†
Chpt 2.8
- Eddie caught himself in the small evasion of looking away, forced his glance back to meet hers, and answered, "He gave in.†
Chpt 2.8
- Do you want to evade it, like all those other cowards?†
Chpt 2.9
- I'm not evading it-she thought-I'm not evading it, it's just that I can see no way to any answer......That which you want-said the voice, while she stumbled through a thickening fog-is yours for the taking, but anything less than your full acceptance, anything less than your full conviction, is a betrayal of everything he is......Then let him damn me-she thought, as if the voice were now lost in the fog and would not hear her-let him damn me tomorrow......I want him ....back......She heard no answer, because her head had fallen softly against the chair; she was asleep.†
Chpt 3.2
- I'm not evading it-she thought-I'm not evading it, it's just that I can see no way to any answer......That which you want-said the voice, while she stumbled through a thickening fog-is yours for the taking, but anything less than your full acceptance, anything less than your full conviction, is a betrayal of everything he is......Then let him damn me-she thought, as if the voice were now lost in the fog and would not hear her-let him damn me tomorrow......I want him ....back......She heard no answer, because her head had fallen softly against the chair; she was asleep.†
Chpt 3.2
- Here-she thought, looking down through green branches at the glittering roofs of the valley-one dealt with men as clear and firm as sun and rocks, and the immense light-heartedness of her relief came from the knowledge that no battle was hard, no decision was dangerous where there was no soggy uncertainty, no shapeless evasion to encounter.†
Chpt 3.2
- She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it-they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbiddenyet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it.†
Chpt 3.3
- She could not understand Jim's behavior, or his sullen anger, which looked like weakness, or his evasive, incomprehensible answers to her questions, which sounded like cowardice; such traits were not possible in the James Taggart whom she had married.†
Chpt 3.4
- The evasiveness of the Taggart executives, when she asked a few casual questions, the stale generalities of their answers, the strain of their manner at the mention of their boss, and their obvious reluctance to discuss him-told her nothing concrete, but gave her a feeling equivalent to knowing the worst.†
Chpt 3.4
- The explosion came, oddly, now; it was the scream of a man who would die rather than betray his idea, and it came from a man who had spent his life evading the existence of ideas, acting with the expediency of a criminal.†
Chpt 3.5
- They looked as if they had come to this room at the price of countless evasions, to let it help them pretend that theirs was still a civilized existence-but an act o£ primeval violence had blasted the nature of their world into the open and they were no longer able not to see.†
Chpt 3.5
- He avoided looking at Rearden, not in a manner of evasion, but as if he had no right to do it.†
Chpt 3.5
- They waited, they evaded all pleas, they declared, "Oh, ridiculous, there's nothing to worry about!†
Chpt 3.5
- She said it as many times, with as many details, statistics, figures, proofs, as she could force out of her weary mind into their evasive hearing.†
Chpt 3.5
- He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look which he had once thought to be the look of a liar cheating a victim, but which he now knew to be worse: the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.†
Chpt 3.6
- They, too, were only riders on a machine without a driver, they were trembling hitchhikers who knew that their vehicle was about to crash into its final abyss-and it was not love or fear of Boyle that made them cling to their course and press on toward their end, it was something else, it was some one nameless element which they knew and evaded knowing, something which was neither thought nor hope, something he identified only as a certain look in their faces, a furtive look saying: I can get away with it.†
Chpt 3.6
- Some spoke of him in shrill curses-others whispered, with a look of guilt and terror, as if a nameless retribution were now to descend upon them-some tried, with hysterical evasiveness, to act as if nothing had happened.†
Chpt 3.7
- It has no power to extend its knowledge or to evade it.†
Chpt 3.7
- All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A. The purpose of those who taught you to evade it, was to make you forget that Man is Man.†
Chpt 3.7
- All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A. The purpose of those who taught you to evade it, was to make you forget that Man is Man.†
Chpt 3.7
- All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A. The purpose of those who taught you to evade it, was to make you forget that Man is Man.†
Chpt 3.7
- You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest-but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.†
Chpt 3.7
- Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud-that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee-that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling-that honesty is not a social duty,†
Chpt 3.7
- of Man, the rational being he is born able to create, but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things, in values of matter and spirit, a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection, valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.†
Chpt 3.7
- Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a 'tendency' to evil.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain
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(2)
(evade as in: evade the question) to avoid or try to avoid either a responsibility or telling the whole truth