All 7 Uses of
establish
in
Doctor Zhivago
- Fedka lived in sin with his ward Motia and therefore saw himself as a disrupter of the established order and a champion of progressive thought.
Chpt 1.2 *established = long-practiced
- …holiday, this liberation from the curse of mediocrity, this soaring flight above the dullness of a humdrum existence, was first achieved in their land, proclaimed in their language, and belonged to their racel And they actually saw and heard it and let it gol How could they allow a spirit of such overwhelming power and beauty to leave them, how could they think that after it triumphed and established its reign, they would remain as the empty husk of that miracle they had repudiated?†
Chpt 1.4
- The people in the cities were as helpless as children in the face of the unknown-that unknown which swept every established habit aside and left nothing but desolation in its wake, although it was itself the offspring of the city and the creation of city-dwellers.†
Chpt 2.6
- The paper was a late extra printed on one side only; it gave the official announcement from Petersburg that a Soviet of People's Commissars had been formed and that Soviet power and the dictatorship of the proletariat were established in Russia.
Chpt 2.6established = set up
- Everyone is worried only about proving himself in practical matters, and as for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of their infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore the truth.†
Chpt 2.8
- When calm was restored, Kostoied went on: "In order to keep up with the growing movement of the peasant masses, it is essential to establish contact at once with all the partisan units operating in the territory of the Party Provincial Committee."†
Chpt 2.10
- By such qualities Pamphil had established his fame, and he was held in great esteem by partisan chiefs and Party leaders.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place