All 16 Uses
revelation
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Sole Survivor
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- I'll be back when it's time, she promised, as though she had revelations to make, truths to reveal.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Joe decided to reserve the rest of his story until he heard theirs, both in the interest of hastening their revelations and to ensure that their recitations were not colored too much by what he revealed.†
Chpt 2.8
- With a sigh, Lisa launched into a revelation: "I have my own weird piece to add to the puzzle, Joey."
Chpt 2.8revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- Revelation eluded him now as it had eluded him when he had been sotted with sleep.
Chpt 3.9revelation = revealing of something previously unknown
- Though the forest had begun to seem claustrophobic, he was now reluctant to forsake the crowding greenery for the revelation that lay beyond.
Chpt 3.10revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- Taking her first fateful step toward revelation, Barbara said, "The flight-data recorder and the cockpit-voice recorder arrived in Washington on the Gulfstream and were in the labs by three o'clock Eastern Time the day after the crash."
Chpt 3.10
- Unaware of the tremendous impact that her revelation had on Joe, Mercy opened the oven door to check the cookies once more.
Chpt 3.11
- His response to this revelation was so complexly tangled that he could not quickly unknot it, so dark that he could not easily see the entire shape of it.
Chpt 3.12
- "I was just—" Before Barbara could say anything that might reveal the extent of the revelations she'd made to him, Joe said, "Listen, I wanted to thank you again for taking me to the crash site.†
Chpt 4.13
- As he approached the revelation that had lifted Georgine and Charlie Delmann from despair to euphoria, as he drew nearer the truth about Nina, his mind churned with conflicting currents, and hope like schools of bright koi darted through his internal darkness.
Chpt 4.14revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- And then...what if this were a revelation with an unnerving edge?
Chpt 4.14
- Now that he'd had time to think about what had happened, the synesthesia seemed to be but prelude to some revelation that was going to be more shattering and humbling than he had previously imagined.
Chpt 4.15
- He remained committed to learning the truth, but now instinct warned him that he should allow the revelations to wash over him in small waves instead of in one devastating tsunami.†
Chpt 4.15
- The child cannot understand why the revelation that she's brought to Amos and Janice would overwhelm them so completely or why Janice's reaction is a mix of euphoria and self-flagellation.
Chpt 4.16revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- Having been born with a full awareness of her place and purpose in the universe, with an understanding of the ladder of destinies that she will climb through infinity, with the certain knowledge of life everlasting carried in her genes, she cannot grasp the shattering power of this revelation when she brings it to those who have spent their lives in the mud of doubt and the dust of despair.
Chpt 4.16
- First: If this revelation can be brought to the world—even to as many as the girl can touch—all that is now will pass away.
Chpt 4.16
Definitions:
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(revelation) something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, Revelation refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days. It can also refer to things revealed religiously rather than via logic.