1 Such things, he saw, could not happen today.
2 As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago.
3 By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient.
4 But today, supposing that it could be somehow resurrected from its ashes, the photograph might not even be evidence.
5 Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago.
6 It was, he now realized, because of this other incident that he had suddenly decided to come home and begin the diary today.
7 At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable.
8 Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible.
9 These resembled the scientific terms in use today, and were constructed from the same roots, but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly and strip them of undesirable meanings.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 10 And in addition, only a person thoroughly grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word BELLYFEEL, which implied a blind, enthusiastic acceptance difficult to imagine today; or of the word OLDTHINK, which was inextricably mixed up with the idea of wickedness and decadence.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 11 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
12 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.