All 7 Uses of
revelation
in
The Fountainhead
- Miss Cook, I've read Clouds and Shrouds and it was a spiritual revelation to me.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- The thin line of his mouth moved faintly, as if his lips had caught the first hint of a personal revelation—an involuntary one and, therefore, a weakness—and were holding it tight while he spoke: "Most people go to very to very great lengths in order to convince themselves of their self-respect."†
Chpt 3.3
- Keating thought that they were not human bodies, either one of them; something had vanished; the light of the crystal fixtures in the room was the radiance of X-rays that ate through, not the bones, but deeper; they were souls, he thought, sitting at a dinner table, souls held with evening clothes, lacking the intermediate shape of flesh, terrifying in naked revelation—terrifying, because he expected to see torturers, but saw a great innocence.†
Chpt 3.3
- Can you imagine a solid bromide undressing his soul as if it were a revelation?†
Chpt 3.6
- It was an air of inanities uttered as revelations and insolently demanding acceptance as such; an air, not of innocent presumption, but of conscious effrontery; as if the author knew the nature of his work and boasted of his power to make it appear sublime in the minds of his audience and thus destroy the capacity for the sublime within them.†
Chpt 3.8
- # There was a scandal over the revelations of the financing methods behind Monadnock Valley, there was a trial, a few gentlemen sentenced to the penitentiary, and a new management taking Monadnock over for the shareholders.†
Chpt 4.1
- Instinct'—'Feeling'—'Revelation'—'Divine Intuition'—'Dialectic Materialism.†
Chpt 4.14 *
Definitions:
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(revelation with a lowercase "r") something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Revelation as a proper noun refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days.