All 7 Uses

grandeur
in
The Fountainhead
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A young country had watched him on his way, had wondered, had begun to accept the new grandeur of his work.†
Chpt 1.3 *

grandeur = impressive magnificence
The approval, together with that wise half-smile, granted him a grandeur he did not have to earn; a blind admiration would have been precarious; a deserved admiration would have been a responsibility; an undeserved admiration was precious.†
Chpt 1.4
He picked it up, feeling strong enough, in this moment, in the confidence of his secret spiritual grandeur, to face the whole world contained in that pile.†
Chpt 2.4
Or, we can say that by the splendor of their achievement which we can neither equal nor keep, these twelve have shown us what we are, that we do not want the free gifts of their grandeur, that a cave by an oozing swamp and a fire of sticks rubbed together are preferable to skyscrapers and neon lights—if the cave and the sticks are the limit of your own creative capacities.†
Chpt 2.8
And only when it is dead, when you care no longer, when you have lost your identity and forgotten the name of your soul—only then will you know the kind of happiness I spoke about, and the gates of spiritual grandeur will fall open before you.†
Chpt 2.13
Premonitory echoes of the new grandeur can be found in some of his work.†
Chpt 3.6
It is a small building, but in its modest proportions it embodies all the grim simplicity of the new discipline and presents an invigorating example of the Grandeur of the Little.†
Chpt 3.6

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