ENDURE in ATLAS SHRUGGED - verbalworkout.com

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endured the pain

Definition

to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)

He had felt incapable of enduring the boredom of the dinner,
3.4 Part 3 Chapter 4 — Anti-Life (5% in)

enduring = suffering through

As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a strange expression that resembled a look of weariness, except that it seemed to reflect much more than the endurance of this one moment.
1.1 Part 1 Chapter 1 — The Theme (90% in)
But an almost unendurable contempt made him close his eyes, instead.
1.2 Part 1 Chapter 2 — The Chain (98% in)
She lay still-as the motionless, then the quivering object of an act which he did simply, unhesitatingly, as of right, the right of the unendurable pleasure it gave them.
1.5 Part 1 Chapter 5 — The Climax of the D'Anconias (52% in)
He acted like a man who stood straight, under the weight of an unendurable burden.
1.5 Part 1 Chapter 5 — The Climax of the D'Anconias (65% in)
She stood straight, her arms at her sides, her face austere, as if in unflinching endurance; she stood under the praise as under a lashing of insults.
1.9 Part 1 Chapter 9 — The Sacred and the Profane (40% in)
She pressed the back of her hand to her eyes, trying to dam the outbreak of a despair she had not permitted herself to acknowledge; she had not known the extent of it, nor how little of her endurance the quest had left her.
1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (85% in)
Why, then-she wondered-should he have had to carry a burden of tragedy which, in silent endurance, he had accepted so completely that he had barely known he carried it?
2.1 Part 2 Chapter 1 — The Man Who Belonged on Earth (78% in)
You take pride in setting no limit to your endurance, Mr. Rearden, because you think that you are doing right.
2.3 Part 2 Chapter 3 — White Blackmail (80% in)
Do you care to purchase-at the price of your great endurance, at the price of your agony-the satisfaction of the needs of your own destroyers?
2.3 Part 2 Chapter 3 — White Blackmail (85% in)
The light of the lamp hit his face from below, and Rearden could not see his eyes, only his mouth drawn in lines of endurance and oddly solemn resignation.
2.4 Part 2 Chapter 4 — The Sanction of the Victim (94% in)
There are no standards left for men to live by, so I don't care to judge anything they do today or in what manner they attempt to endure the unendurable.
2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (37% in)
Your generosity and your endurance are their only tools.
2.8 Part 2 Chapter 8 — By Our Love (48% in)
When he threw her down on the couch, she knew, to the rhythm of the beat of his body, that it was the act of his victory over his rival and of his surrender to him, the act of ownership brought to unendurable violence by the thought of the man whom it was defying, the act of transforming his hatred for the pleasure that man had known into the intensity of his own pleasure, his conquest of that man by means of her body-she felt Francisco's presence through Rearden's mind, she felt as if...
2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (49% in)
He told me that you were the sole hope and future of Taggart Transcontinental, that you'd stand against us for a long time, that you'd fight a desperate battle for your railroad-because you had too much endurance, courage and consecration to your work.
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (41% in)
She saw his veiled glance and the tautness of his mouth, she saw him reduced to agony, she felt herself drowned by the exultant wish to cause him pain, to see it, to watch it, to watch it beyond her own endurance and his, then to reduce him to the helplessness of pleasure.
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (44% in)
The taut look of endurance, of fiercely unadmitted pain, was gone; now, in the midst of the wreckage and of his hardest hour, his face had the serenity of pure strength; it had the look she had seen in the faces of the men in the valley.
3.3 Part 3 Chapter 3 — Anti-Greed (97% in)
She knew how fully he understood it, from a single glance he threw at her, a glance of indignation and endurance that matched some emotion he had caught in her face, "We'll do it first and feel about it afterwards," she said, even though he had made no comment.
3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (79% in)
He had not seen the house since that May 15, six months ago, when he had walked out of itand the sight brought back to him the sum of all he had felt in ten years of daily home-coming: the strain, the bewilderment, the gray weight of unconfessed unhappiness, the stern endurance that forbade him to confess it, the desperate innocence of the effort to understand his family .... the effort to be just.
3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (15% in)
The unendurable was not that these questions had no answer, but that the answer was so simply, so easily within her reach and that she had no right to take a step to reach it.
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (4% in)
Your destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your innocence, your love-the endurance that carries their burdens-the generosity that responds to their cries of despair-the innocence that is unable to conceive of their evil and gives them the benefit of every doubt, refusing to condemn them without understanding and incapable of understanding such motives as theirs-the love, your love of life, which makes you believe that they are men and that they love it, too.
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (99% in)
Your destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your innocence, your love-the endurance that carries their burdens-the generosity that responds to their cries of despair-the innocence that is unable to conceive of their evil and gives them the benefit of every doubt, refusing to condemn them without understanding and incapable of understanding such motives as theirs-the love, your love of life, which makes you believe that they are men and that they love it, too.
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (99% in)
Her face had the same look as all the others, he thought, except for something in the set of the mouth that suggested endurance.
3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (68% in)

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I do not care to live on their terms, I do not care to obey them and I do not care to see you enduring a drawn-out murder.
3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (39% in)

He had never asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him, they who pressed a claim on him-and the claim seemed to have the form of affection, but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred.
1.2 Part 1 Chapter 2 — The Chain (67% in)
The sounds of torture became defiance, the statement of agony became a hymn to a distant vision for whose sake anything was worth enduring, even this.
1.4 Part 1 Chapter 4 — The Immovable Movers (14% in)
It is proper, it is noble that he should have endured suffering, injustice, abuse at the hands of his brothers-in order to enrich their lives and teach them to appreciate the beauty of great music.
1.4 Part 1 Chapter 4 — The Immovable Movers (20% in)
He still remembered the night when he admitted it, when he told himself-the veins of his wrists pulled tight as he stood by the bed, looking down at Lillian-that he deserved the torture and that he would endure it.
1.6 Part 1 Chapter 6 — The Non-Commercial (95% in)
The things she had endured had now receded into some outer fog, like pain that still exists, but has no power to hurt.
1.8 Part 1 Chapter 8 — The John Galt Line (55% in)
He stood looking at her as if it took all of his effort to keep his eyes directed at her face, to keep seeing her, to endure the sight.
1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (35% in)
For the sake of pity, not justice, T endured ten years of self-torture.
2.6 Part 2 Chapter 6 — Miracle Metal (96% in)
There are no standards left for men to live by, so I don't care to judge anything they do today or in what manner they attempt to endure the unendurable.
2.7 Part 2 Chapter 7 — The Moratorium on Brains (37% in)
But he knew that Francisco was facing him as no one else did these days-he saw the eyes held straight to meet his, the features composed, without emotion, without defense or appeal, set to endure whatever was coming-he saw the open, unprotected look of courage-this was the face of the man he had loved, the man who had set him free of guilt-and he found himself fighting against the knowledge that this face still held him, above all else, above his month of impatience for the sight of...
2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (29% in)
He looked as if he were facing another presence in the room and as if his glance were saying: If this is what you demand of me, then even this is yours, yours to accept and mine to endure, there is no more than this in me to offer you, but let me be proud to know that I can offer so much.
2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (39% in)
She did not know what form of torture he was enduring, or what he saw being wrecked within him and kept himself the only one to see.
2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (45% in)
She knew that he was seeing her as she had been at seventeen, he was seeing her with the rival he hated, he was seeing them together as they would be now, a sight he could neither endure nor resist.
2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (47% in)
His smile was a full statement of understanding, and the small flame of his match lighting their two cigarettes was their most enduring handshake.
2.10 Part 2 Chapter 10 — The Sign of the Dollar (83% in)
It was like the beat of three instants-this was the first-and in the next, she felt a stab of ferocious triumph at the knowledge that his effort and his struggle were harder to endure than hers-and, then he moved his eyes and raised his head to look at the inscription on the temple.
3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (58% in)
It was the sudden monomania of a sensation too complete to endure.
3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (62% in)
Every other kind and class have stopped, when they so wished, and have presented demands to the world, claiming to be indispensable-except the men who have carried the world on their shoulders, have kept it alive, have endured torture as sole payment, but have never walked out on the human race.
3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (72% in)
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being...
3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (73% in)
She felt the light-headed, the easy, the almost frivolous sensation of triumph in the knowledge that she was holding him as surely as by a physical touch; for the length of a moment, brief and dangerous to endure, it was a more satisfying form of contact.
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (40% in)
-it does and I am...... She lay on her back, her palms pressed to the sheet at her sides, to stop herself from rising and walking into his room, knowing that she was capable even of that...... It's not I, it's a body I can neither endure nor control...... But somewhere within her, not as words, but as a radiant point of stillness, there was the presence of the judge who seemed to observe her, not in stern condemnation any longer, but in approval and amusement, as if saying: Your body?
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (45% in)
But, you see, the measure of the hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (90% in)
The sound came from his engine, from the control of his hands on the wheel; she held onto that; the rest was to be endured, not resisted.
3.2 Part 3 Chapter 2 — The Utopia of Greed (98% in)
She glanced at Eddie; he looked like a man worn by fighting one more of the attacks of disgust which he was learning to endure as a chronic condition.
3.3 Part 3 Chapter 3 — Anti-Greed (64% in)
What hell you've now undertaken to endure!" he said, his voice low.
3.3 Part 3 Chapter 3 — Anti-Greed (**% in)
She wondered how long a man could endure a change of that kind.
3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (25% in)
Then I saw the scene in full context again and in all of its actual meaning-I saw what price he was paying for his brilliant ability, what torture he was enduring in silent bewilderment, struggling to understand what I had understood-I saw that the world he suggested, did not exist and was yet to be made, I saw him again for what he was, the symbol of my battle, the unrewarded hero whom I was to avenge and to release-and then .... then I accepted what I had learned about you and him.
3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (95% in)
You'll have to endure what I've endured and wanted to spare youyou'll have to go on, knowing where I am, wanting me as I'll want you, but never permitting yourself to approach me.
3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (98% in)
You'll have to endure what I've endured and wanted to spare youyou'll have to go on, knowing where I am, wanting me as I'll want you, but never permitting yourself to approach me.
3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (98% in)
The way she now looked at him was worse than her smile-she looked as if she were seeing him naked and would not endure the sight much longer.
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (1% in)
AH the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders1 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.
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (22% in)
Do you wish to continue a struggle that consists of clinging to precarious ledges in a sliding descent to the abyss, a struggle where the hardships you endure are irreversible and the victories you win bring you closer to destruction?
3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (98% in)
...now fail to appear at their posts on some coming morning and would silently vanish in search of unknown frontiers-the men whose faces were tighter than the faces around them, whose eyes were more direct, whose energy was more conscientiously enduring-the men who were now slipping away, one by one, from every corner of the countryof the country which was now like the descendant of what had once been regal glory, prostrated by the scourge of hemophilia, losing the best of its blood from...
3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (18% in)
The tortured faces strung out above the speakers' table were not succeeding in their efforts to hide that they looked like men enduring an ordeal; the calm of Galt's face seemed radiant among them; she wondered who was prisoner here and who was master.
3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (92% in)
He glanced up at Dagny's face, as her arm shot forward to help him; he saw the struggle of her smile against the tension of her resisted tears; it was the struggle of her knowledge that nothing could matter beside the sight of his naked body and that this body was living —against her knowledge of what it had endured.
3.10 Part 3 Chapter 10 — In the Name of the Best Among Us (36% in)

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