All 50 Uses of
mock
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But from the sunset far at the end of the street, yellow glints caught his eyes, and the eyes looked straight at Eddie Willers, mocking and still-as if the question had been addressed to the causeless uneasiness within him.†
Chpt 1.1
- Taggart asked slowly, his voice half-mocking, half-cautious, "What did my sister say?"†
Chpt 1.1
- It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.†
Chpt 1.4
- His voice was mocking.†
Chpt 1.4
- They stood looking at each other: hers was a glance of admiration, his of mockery; but it was not the mockery of malice-it was the laughter of a salute.†
Chpt 1.5
- They stood looking at each other: hers was a glance of admiration, his of mockery; but it was not the mockery of malice-it was the laughter of a salute.†
Chpt 1.5
- Francisco smiled; it was a smile of radiant mockery.†
Chpt 1.5
- She braced her feet to stop the dizziness, she held her head straight and stood facing him in the consciousness of a new power, feeling herself his equal for the first time, looking at him with a mocking smile of triumph.†
Chpt 1.5
- He listened silently, looking at her for the first time with that glance of unmoving mockery which he reserved for others, a glance that seemed to see too much.†
Chpt 1.5
- She saw Francisco's mocking glance again, across the net of a tennis court.†
Chpt 1.5
- It was a mocking glance that seemed to see straight through her clothes and through her mind.†
Chpt 1.5
- She would sit on the floor of her room, surrounded by charts and blueprints, she would hear a knock at her door and snap, "I'm busy!" then hear a mocking voice ask, "Are you?" and leap to her feet to throw the door open, to find him standing there.†
Chpt 1.5
- There was no sign of tragedy, no bitterness, no tension-only the radiant mockery, matured and stressed, the look of dangerously unpredictable amusement, and the great, guiltless serenity of spirit.†
Chpt 1.5
- Lillian, I don't think that Henry is having a good time," he said, smiling; one could not tell whether the mockery of his smile was directed at Lillian or at Rearden.†
Chpt 1.6
- There was neither mockery nor self-pity in Francisco's face; the fine, sculptured planes and the clear, blue eyes held a quiet composure, the face was open, offered to any blow, unflinching.†
Chpt 1.6
- He was looking at her with a kind of stressed curiosity; his eyes were mocking.†
Chpt 1.6
- She spoke little; she had an air of mystery that seemed to tell him he would never break through her proud detachment, and an air of amusement, mocking her own desire and his.†
Chpt 1.6
- There was no mockery, no amusement, no antagonism; it was as if he did not belong in these particular moments of existence and could not be reached.†
Chpt 1.7
- I'm not able ever to despise you enough to believe that you mean it" The look on her face astonished him more than all the rest: it was a look of defeat and yet of an odd, sly, cynical cunning, as if, for a moment, she held some worldly wisdom that mocked his innocence.†
Chpt 1.7
- There was no mockery in their answers now, no bitterness.†
Chpt 1.8
- "What were you excited about?" asked Dagny, her eyes narrowed in mockery.†
Chpt 1.8
- She saw him smile for the first time, a slow, mocking, sensual smile that stressed the purpose of his action.†
Chpt 1.8
- There was the faint suggestion of a contemptuous smile in his face, at once admitting and mocking his knowledge of her hours of impatience and his own.†
Chpt 1.9
- She glanced at him in astonishment; he had never paid her open compliments of that kind; the admiration in his voice was genuine, but the hint of mockery remained in his face, and she felt as if he were speaking to some purpose which she could not guess.†
Chpt 1.9
- She laughed soundlessly, her laughter mocking, but her eyes half-closed, veiled with pleasure.†
Chpt 1.9
- She did not answer, she looked at him, her eyes dark and oddly brilliant, and he saw that the shape of her mouth, distorted by pain, was the shape of a mocking smile.†
Chpt 1.9
- He lay still, looking up at her, his eyes narrowed, the bright flicker of some particular interest in his eyes, intent and faintly mocking.†
Chpt 1.9
- She smiled, in understanding, in answering mockery.†
Chpt 1.9
- She came closer and, with an amused smile that seemed to mock them both, she slipped her arms around him.†
Chpt 1.10
- He smiled, and she knew that the smile was intended to break the bond which he, too, had felt: the smile had a trace of courteous mockery.†
Chpt 1.10
- Resting on the belief that self-mockery is an act of virtue, the shrug was the emotional equivalent of the sentence: You're Robert Stadler, don't act like a high-school neurotic.†
Chpt 2.1
- The voice was so innocently smooth that Dr. Stadler could not decide whether this was mockery.†
Chpt 2.1
- Her eyes were half-closed in the mocking, conscious triumph of being admired, but her mouth was half-open in helpless, begging expectation.†
Chpt 2.1
- Do you still need proof that I'm always waiting for you?" she asked, leaning obediently back in her chair; her voice was neither tender nor pleading, but bright and mocking.†
Chpt 2.1
- She would see the strange expressions on their faces and Jim watching them with a hint of mockery in his eyes.†
Chpt 2.2
- There was the faintest coating of mockery spread, like shellac, over the smooth notes of her voice.†
Chpt 2.2
- He was smiling at her, half in mockery, half in compassion.†
Chpt 2.3
- He had expected a look of triumph, of mockery at all the insults Francisco had heard from him, a look demanding the apology he was joyously eager to offer.†
Chpt 2.3
- Rearden could not decipher the expression of his face: it was only a look of peculiar stillness, as if his eyes were fixed on some secret vision of his own that drew his mouth into a line of desolate, bitter, hurting self-mockery.†
Chpt 2.3
- Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers.†
Chpt 2.4
- He smiled, not looking at her; it was a mocking smile, but it was a smile of pain and the mockery was directed at himself.†
Chpt 2.5
- He smiled, not looking at her; it was a mocking smile, but it was a smile of pain and the mockery was directed at himself.†
Chpt 2.5
- And to Sebastian d'Anconia?" she asked-then regretted it, because it had sounded like mockery, which she had not intended.†
Chpt 2.5
- An angry spark flashed in Taggart's veiled eyes, then his eyelids narrowed slowly and he, too, leaned back in his chair, his face relaxing to a faint look of mockery and satisfaction.†
Chpt 2.5
- Her composure returned, with the faint suggestion of a smile of secret mockery.†
Chpt 2.5
- Boyle did not catch the tone of mockery, and answered earnestly,
Chpt 2.6 *mockery = ridicule
- I see that you're in your office just the same," he said; his voice was mocking, harsh and tense.†
Chpt 2.6
- Glancing at the paper, Rearden wondered whether it was a deliberate mockery of decency, or so low an estimate of their victims' intelligence, that had made the designers of this paper print the text across a faint drawing of the Statue of Liberty.†
Chpt 2.6
- As if stressing and mocking her loneliness, a voice came back to her mind: "But you would not run trains if they were empty."†
Chpt 2.10
- And in answer to the earth that flew to meet her, she heard in her mind, as her mockery at fate, as her cry of defiance, the words of the sentence she hated-the words of defeat, of despair and of a plea for help: "Oh hell!†
Chpt 2.10