All 9 Uses of
immortal
in
The Fountainhead
- The discipline of an immortal tradition has served here as a cohesive factor in evolving a structure whose beauty can reach, simply and lucidly, the heart of every man in the street.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- "By my immortal soul, Hopton," he said slowly, "he's the best there is."†
Chpt 2.10
- He's completely immortal.†
Chpt 2.12
- He had famous masterpieces; he had canvases by unknown artists; he rejected the works of immortal names for which he did not care.†
Chpt 3.1
- Though perhaps they are the only immortal ones.†
Chpt 3.4
- He said: "I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality.†
Chpt 3.5immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- You wish to reject an opportunity like this, a shot in history, a chance of world fame, practically a chance of immortality...†
Chpt 4.1
- He thought that he had believed it was a simple sequence, the past and the present, and if there was loss in the past one was compensated by pain in the present, and pain gave it a form of immortality—but he had not known that one could destroy like this, kill retroactively—so that to her it had never existed.†
Chpt 4.10
- A placard stood by the glass column of the box office: "Bill Shakespeare's immortal classic!†
Chpt 4.16
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.