fountainhead
noun
Origin of fountainhead
Related Words for fountainhead
originator, administrator, generator, author, spring, builder, creator, father, leader, mother, maker, architect, fount, fountain, wellspring, initiatorExamples from the Web for fountainhead
Contemporary Examples of fountainhead
In 1949 his wife Lauren Bacall was slated to star alongside Gary Cooper in the adaptation of Rand's The Fountainhead.
To RJ Eskow of the Campaign for America's Future, his plan is " The Fountainhead meets Death Race 2000."
Pauline Kael nailed The Fountainhead, both the novel and the film made from it, as “wildly extravagant Kitsch.”
Historical Examples of fountainhead
Wasting no more words, I marched off to the fountainhead for information.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
Such publications became the fountainhead of Colonial design.
The Colonial Architecture of PhiladelphiaFrank Cousins
Such knowledge he acquired at the fountainhead—that is, from himself.
The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 1, 1853-1866Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Your veins run with fiery evil direct from its fountainhead.
Under the Witches' MoonNathan Gallizier
French Gothic churches are a fountainhead, and should rank first.
How France Built Her CathedralsElizabeth Boyle O'Reilly