All 7 Uses of
condemn
in
The Magic Mountain
- it in his conversations with Naphta and Settembrini, when he would report to them about his cousin's condition; he was rebuked by the Italian, however, for observing that there was an underlying error in the conventional notion that philosophical credulity and sanguine trust in the good are expressions of health, whereas pessimism and condemnation of the world are signs of illness; because otherwise the bleak final state could not bring forth an optimism, compared to whose awful rosiness the preceding gloom seemed a coarse, but healthy expression of life.†
Chpt 6.8 *condemnation = expression of strong criticism
- My great worry is that I have been condemned to waste my malice on such miserable objects.†
Chpt 3.4
- And I would be only too glad to know when you ever heard me condemn a war of national liberation.†
Chpt 6.2
- Condemned.†
Chpt 7.3
- raw from shaving; the strained tracery of creases across the bare brow encircled by white flames; the little pale eyes held wide—and in his eyes Hans Castorp saw something like a flicker of terror at that crime, that one great sin, that unpardonable transgression, to which he had alluded and which, in trying to fathom its horror, he had condemned to silence with all the spellbinding energy of a vague but commanding personality ...Objective, matter-of-fact terror, Hans Castorp thought, but personal terror, too, something to do with his own life, with the regal man himself.†
Chpt 7.3
- And that is why my desires are condemned to disgrace, and my body can only writhe forever.†
Chpt 7.5
- And the condemned man quite rightly protested her sacrificing her own dear life; and yet in his gentle, desperate, "No, no!†
Chpt 7.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism
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(2)
(condemn as in: was condemned to life in prison) force into an undesired activity or situation -- such as to legally sentence someone to punishment
or:
find guilty -- especially in court (and sometimes to death)
or:
provide the means of finding guilty -
(3)
(condemn as in: condemned the building) an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied