All 11 Uses of
resignation
in
This Side of Paradise
- ...he scrutinized his room resignedly, concluding that it was hopeless to attempt any more inspired decoration...
Chpt 1.2 *resignedly = having accepted something undesirable as the best that can be done
- Amory subsided resignedly and drooped into a contemplation of the scenery.†
Chpt 1.2resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- About one-third of the junior class are going to resign from their clubs.
Chpt 1.4 *resign = quit
- CECELIA: (Resignedly) I guess it ran out before it got to me.†
Chpt 2.1resignedly = with acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
- ROSALIND: (Resignedly) Yes.†
Chpt 2.1
- It's so evident that resigning from his club means so much more to him than preventing it does to us that I felt futile when I argued; finally took a position that was brilliantly neutral.†
Chpt 1.4
- And you say almost a third of the junior class are going to resign?†
Chpt 1.4
- About a hundred juniors and seniors resigned from their clubs in a final fury of righteousness, and the clubs in helplessness turned upon Burne their finest weapon: ridicule.†
Chpt 1.4
- He resigned the vice-presidency of the senior class and took to reading and walking as almost his only pursuits.†
Chpt 1.4
- Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.†
Chpt 1.4
- Another sigh came from the window—quite a resigned sigh.†
Chpt 2.1
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