All 4 Uses of
pacifist
in
This Side of Paradise
- Pacifism played in the back of his mind, and he read The Masses and Lyoff Tolstoi faithfully.†
Chpt 1.4 *pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
- Then, after a week, Amory saw Burne and knew at once that argument would be futile—Burne had come out as a pacifist.†
Chpt 1.4pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
- But think of the cheapness of it—no one's really going to martyr you for being a pacifist—it's just going to throw you in with the worst—†
Chpt 1.4
- The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own rickety generalities; each had depended after all on the set stage and the convention of the theatre, which is that man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.†
Chpt 2.5pacifists = people opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes