All 16 Uses of
infinite
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- The attendant looked at him indifferently, as if from infinitely far away, and the Judge sipped his whiskey again, uneasy.†
Chpt Prol. *
- He would be sitting with his big white hands on his knees, that burnt, hairy face looking up at the ceiling, infinitely sad.†
Chpt 1
- At times he had (one mask among many, for stiff as the fire-blasted face was, he could wrench it into an infinite number of shapes) an elfish, impenetrable grin which suggested madness, and indeed, from all evidence, the man was certainly insane.†
Chpt 2
- "When you think about it," the voice said, infinitely weary, "the world is more like a jailhouse than like a hospital.†
Chpt 2
- He smiled as if from infinitely above her.†
Chpt 4
- Infinitely subtle compared to her father's, and for that reason more deadly.†
Chpt 7
- YOUNG MAN: Sir, the man said to give you— CLUMLY (infinitely weary): Thank you.†
Chpt 11
- It was the physical pattern in the carpet, where the blueblack lines intersected the brown and where figures of roses showed their threads; in the broken putty on the windowpanes, in the angular shadows inside the glass of a doorknob, in the infinite complexity of lines in the bark of trees, in the dust in the sunbeams: substance calling beyond itself to substance.†
Chpt 12
- Freeman shrugged, infinitely sad.†
Chpt 13
- Outside the study window, she knows without looking, the afternoon is unnaturally bright, teeming with grass and leaves and the infinite webwork of bark on trees, and the air is full of noise: children, an air-hammer six blocks away, the whisper of creatures in motion, destroying and building, crawling through the grass.†
Chpt 14
- The mare breathed deep and sighed, letting her back sag, infinitely weary of all man's paltry machinations, and Ben Hodge, servant of sunlit visions, whose heart was set on holiness—like the girl in the story his father told, who threw roses in the air—was silent.†
Chpt 15
- Though he seemed on the surface, even now, indifferent, infinitely calm, she could feel his concentration in the chill of her blood.†
Chpt 15
- and she remembered years from some other life, far away and trivial and sweet as a fairytale, a young girl's sorrows over trifling things, a mother's sweet and touching madness, a sailorboy walking through a wood with her, holding her hand with a sweet and ridiculous tenderness, and they made pictures with stones and he talked of the weather and she said with, oh, infinite righteousness, that she did not believe in indiscriminate kissing (but she was going to have an operation, and afterward, who knew?†
Chpt 16
- The ordinary layman would be amazed at the infinite variety of psychotic avenues—no two exactly alike.†
Chpt 19
- Now he was there; the long bridge opened out ahead of him, an eighth of a mile away, silver girders reaching out across the silent pitch-dark valley, the black further side of it just beginning to come into view—up over his head, stars, motionless and perfect as the infinite span between the heartbeats of God.†
Chpt 22
- The bridge rushed toward him, and he was conscious of the rush and at the same time conscious of the infinite time it took the truck to reach the place, and now suddenly all his pain vanished as if by magic and he was reading the sign twenty feet from the bridge—35 MPH—as though he had all eternity to read it.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count