All 11 Uses of
symphony
in
The Fountainhead
- The other pages ran a crusade against utility companies; a daily horoscope; extracts from church sermons; recipes for young brides; pictures of girls with beautiful legs; advice on how to hold a husband; a baby contest; a poem proclaiming that to wash dishes was nobler than to write a symphony; an article proving that a woman who had borne a child was automatically a saint.†
Chpt 1.5
- The worst folk song is superior to the best symphony.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- "The Unfinished Symphony—thank God," he said.†
Chpt 2.11
- "The Unfinished Symphony on Central Park South," she wrote.†
Chpt 2.11
- Strangers noticed the odd sight of an expensive structure on an important street, left gaping with empty windows, half-covered walls, naked beams; when they asked what it was, people who had never heard of Roark or of the story behind the building, snickered and answered: "Oh, that's the Unfinished Symphony.†
Chpt 2.11
- He did not feel like working and he allowed himself a rest, relaxing luxuriously in an armchair, letting his fingers follow the rhythm of a complicated symphony.†
Chpt 2.13
- He gave a great symphony conductor a munificent yearly income, for no work at all, on the sole condition that he never conduct an orchestra again.†
Chpt 3.1
- But they were like variations of a single theme, like a symphony played by an inexhaustible imagination, and one could still hear the laughter of the force that had been let loose on them, as if that force had run, unrestrained, challenging itself to be spent, but had never reached its end.†
Chpt 4.1
- So he went back to New York—to see the rubble and cement dust cleared away from the hulk of the Unfinished Symphony, to see derricks swing girders high over Central Park, to see the gaps of windows filled, the broad decks spread over the roofs of the city, the Aquitania Hotel completed, glowing at night in the Park's skyline.†
Chpt 4.1
- When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got.†
Chpt 4.4
- A symphony, a book, an engine, a philosophy, an airplane or a building—that was his goal and his life.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
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(symphony) a long and complex piece of music -- typically for full orchestra in four parts
or: an orchestra that plays such; or such a performance
or: any harmonious composition of complex parts as in "a symphony for the palate."