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1  'Anything that we are capable of,' said Winston.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
2  Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
4  For days at a time he was capable of forgetting that he had ever been married.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
5  As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
7  Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
8  She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
9  When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  He thought it with a kind of sadness, although well knowing that Syme despised him and slightly disliked him, and was fully capable of denouncing him as a thought-criminal if he saw any reason for doing so.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
11  A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous; but no attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the ideology of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
12  It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
13  At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1