All 3 Uses of
inertia
in
The Fountainhead
- Because on your side you have reason—oh, I know, it's something no one really wants to have on his side—and against you, you have just a vague, fat, blind inertia.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- He went on, driven by inertia.†
Chpt 4.7
- It was neither courage nor loyalty; it was inertia; they had lived too long with the thought that the world would end if they lost their jobs on the Banner.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
a tendency to continue in the same manner -- such as sit still and do nothing or continue moving in a particular direction