All 17 Uses of
infinite
in
This Side of Paradise
- She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.†
Chpt 1.1
- Amory marked himself a fortunate youth, capable of infinite expansion for good or evil.†
Chpt 1.1
- The early moon had drenched the arches with pale blue, and, weaving over the night, in and out of the gossamer rifts of moon, swept a song, a song with more than a hint of sadness, infinitely transient, infinitely regretful.†
Chpt 1.2
- The early moon had drenched the arches with pale blue, and, weaving over the night, in and out of the gossamer rifts of moon, swept a song, a song with more than a hint of sadness, infinitely transient, infinitely regretful.†
Chpt 1.2
- The Gothic halls and cloisters were infinitely more mysterious as they loomed suddenly out of the darkness, outlined each by myriad faint squares of yellow light.†
Chpt 1.2
- So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.†
Chpt 1.2
- He possessed infinite courage,
Chpt 1.2 *infinite = unlimited; without boundaries
- It was still a music, though, infinitely sorrowful.†
Chpt 1.2
- And so on in an eternal monotone that seemed to both of them infinitely charming, infinitely new.†
Chpt 1.2
- And so on in an eternal monotone that seemed to both of them infinitely charming, infinitely new.†
Chpt 1.2
- It seemed a stupid way to commence his upper-class years, to spend four hours a morning in the stuffy room of a tutoring school, imbibing the infinite boredom of conic sections.†
Chpt 1.3
- Then something clanged like a low gong struck at a distance, and before his eyes a face flashed over the two feet, a face pale and distorted with a sort of infinite evil that twisted it like flame in the wind; _but he knew, for the half instant that the gong tanged and hummed, that it was the face of Dick Humbird.†
Chpt 1.3
- AMORY: Good-by— (She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.†
Chpt 2.1
- AMORY: Good-by— (She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.†
Chpt 2.1
- Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?†
Chpt 2.3
- It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power—to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk.†
Chpt 2.4
- Usually, on nights like this, for there had been many lately, he could escape from this consuming introspection by thinking of children and the infinite possibilities of children—he leaned and listened and he heard a startled baby awake in a house across the street and lend a tiny whimper to the still night.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(infinite) unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count