All 21 Uses of
resignation
in
The Fountainhead
- He hoped she would resign. He could not face the thought of having to fire her.
Chpt 2.13 *resign = quit (from her job)
- Then he stood straight, but with a kind of quiet resignation,
Chpt 4.3 *resignation = look of having accepted the need to endure (suffer through) something undesired
- He went so far as to threaten us with his resignation unless you were expelled.†
Chpt 1.1
- She was a meek little old lady with white hair, trembling hands and a face one could never remember, quiet, resigned and gently hopeless.†
Chpt 1.6
- Roark looked at the sketches, and even though he wanted to throw them at Keating's face and resign, one thought stopped him: the thought that it was a building and that he had to save it, as others could not pass a drowning man without leaping in to the rescue.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was as if his huge body were resigned to the conventions of a prosaic civilization and to its drab garments, but the oval of his chest and stomach sallied forth, flying the colors of his inner soul.†
Chpt 1.10
- ...I've a jolly good mind to resign if you turn this down!†
Chpt 1.13
- She moved about silently, with the meek courage of resignation.†
Chpt 1.14
- And it made them sit silently, facing each other, in astonishment, in resignation.†
Chpt 1.15
- When the term of her vacation expired, she went to the office of the Banner in order to resign.†
Chpt 2.5
- After a while he said, his voice flat, resigned: "No. I'm all right.†
Chpt 2.12
- Waiting to hear whether I'll have to resign.†
Chpt 2.13
- You can't even resign, my dear," he said.†
Chpt 2.13
- You...you were going to resign anyway, weren't you?†
Chpt 2.13
- She stood before him, her face raised; her lips were not drawn, but closed softly, yet the shape of her mouth was too definite on her face, a shape of pain and tenderness, and resignation.†
Chpt 2.14
- She came to visit him often and she was always polite to Dominique, with a strange, beaten air of resignation.†
Chpt 3.2
- He had resigned himself to the process of going down, long ago.†
Chpt 4.7
- He had not chosen to resign himself—that would have been a positive decision—it had merely happened and he had let it happen.†
Chpt 4.7
- ROARK knew that he must not show the shock of his first glance at Peter Keating—and that it was too late: he saw a faint smile on Keating's lips, terrible in its resigned acknowledgment of disintegration.†
Chpt 4.8
- A few men resigned.†
Chpt 4.13
- Toohey put his hands on the arms of his chair, then lifted his palms, from the wrists, and clasped the wood again, a little slap of resigned finality.†
Chpt 4.14
Definitions:
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(1)
(resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
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(2)
(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
To resign can also more specifically mean to surrender or give up as in "I was clearly going to lose the chess game, so I resigned;" or "She resigned all pretense."