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1  It did not contain a grammatical error, but it expressed a palpable untruth--i.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
2  Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
3  His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
4  It was intended only to express simple, purposive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
5  He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
6  But there was a space of a couple of seconds during which the expression of his eyes might conceivably have betrayed him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
7  So far as it could be achieved, a Newspeak word of this class was simply a staccato sound expressing ONE clearly understood concept.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
8  Even before he was near enough to make out the expression on their faces, Winston could see absorption in every line of their bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  But the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which OLDTHINK was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
10  It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
12  A little of the official atmosphere seemed to have fallen away from him with the Newspeak words, but his expression was grimmer than usual, as though he were not pleased at being disturbed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
13  Only a very few words were common to all lists, and there was no vocabulary expressing the function of Science as a habit of mind, or a method of thought, irrespective of its particular branches.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
14  In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
15  Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
16  They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
17  The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
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