#Desolate definition great gatsby full#

Wolfsheim swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction. Text: Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Text: As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. Text: With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.

Text: And then came that disconcerting ride. Text: This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. Text: She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body. Text: Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster. Text: However, as they had left their cars blocking the road, a harsh, discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time, and added to the already violent confusion of the scene. Text: She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted her party at the door. Text: In spite of this wives' agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted, kicking, into the night. Text: Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. Text: He smiled with jovial condescension, and added: 'Some sensation!' Whereupon everybody laughed. Text: But young men didn't-at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't-drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on the Long Island Sound. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years. Text: As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain. Text: As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm. Inclination to believe with little evidence

#Desolate definition great gatsby full#

Text: The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. Text: Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. Text: I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the Park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Text: But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. Text: About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter mile, so as to shrink away from the certain desolate area of land. Text: She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you conceled in one of those breathless, thrilling words. Text: There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.

Text: 'We've got to beat them down,' whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun. Having or showing great warmth, enthusiasm Text: Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored proch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. Text: His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. Text: Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Behaving or looking as though you think you are superior