All 4 Uses of
latent
in
This Side of Paradise
- He missed the place he had won at St. Regis', the being known and admired, yet Princeton stimulated him, and there were many things ahead calculated to arouse the Machiavelli latent in him, could he but insert a wedge.†
Chpt 1.2latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- a latent strength, a realism, was brought to its fullest development by the facts that she was compelled to face.
Chpt 1.4 *
- But quite mechanically he heard himself saying: "And I love you—any latent greatness that I've got is...oh, I can't talk, but Clara, if I come back in two years in a position to marry you—" She shook her head.†
Chpt 1.4
- As long as he occurs, there's trouble and all the latent evil that makes a crowd list and sway when he talks.†
Chpt 1.4