All 6 Uses of
aspiration
in
The Fountainhead
- From the pages of newspapers the face of Peter Keating looked upon the country, the handsome, wholesome, smiling face with the brilliant eyes and the dark curls; it headed columns of print about poverty, struggle, aspiration and unremitting toil that had won their reward; about the faith of a mother who had sacrificed everything to her boy's success; about the "Cinderella of Architecture.†
Chpt 1.15aspiration = desire
- Thus a single man comes to represent, not a lone freak, but the multitude of all men together, to embody the reach of all aspirations in his own.... ...Those gifted with discrimination will be able to hear the message which Peter Keating addresses to us in the shape of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building, to see that the three simple, massive ground floors are the solid bulk of our working classes which support all of society;†
Chpt 2.3 *aspirations = desires
- The great aspiration of the human spirit toward the highest, the noblest, the best.†
Chpt 2.10aspiration = desire
- The aspiration and the fulfillment, both.†
Chpt 2.11
- Kill his aspiration and his integrity.†
Chpt 4.14
- Since the supreme ideal is beyond his grasp, he gives up eventually all ideals, all aspiration, all sense of his personal value.†
Chpt 4.14
Definition:
a desire to achieve something