All 8 Uses of
rigorous
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
- And it forced us to develop the logic and rigor that would lead to systematic investigations of reality, to science, art, music, mathematics.
*rigor = difficult (thorough and careful)
- His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.
*rigor = strictness (when enforcing rules)
- They talked about their mother, about medications, doctors' appointments, not unusual matters, but there was a rigor in the older brother's questions, a particularity of interest and concern that amounted to a kind of challenge.†
- The laps were an attachment to rigorous work, the interval that completes the octave.†
- This was supposed to be a postpainterly age, Klara thought, and here was a young woman painting whole heat, a black woman who paints black men generously but not without exercising a certain critical rigor.†
- He was only showing what is always there beneath the spatial esthetics and the mind-modeling rigor of the game, beneath the forevisional bursts of insight—an autoworld of pain and loss.†
- Klara talked about her early days painting, trying to paint, and how it was small-scale hell in a number of ways but was beginning, now, to seem late bohemian and sort of pasteledged until she made herself remember more rigorously.†
- And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures
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(2)
(rigorous as in: a rigorous math class) difficult and demanding
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(3)
(rigorous as in: rigorous enforcement) strict when enforcing rules