How To Use Doublethink In A Sentence
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His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink.
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The latest amazing example of Left-leaning doublethink by a political psychologist is here.
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Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.
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This doublethink is at the heart of forked-tongued politics.
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But doublethink is still a valuable tool.
Times, Sunday Times
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The priest exuded doublethink like a fog.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doublethink employed by the author is almost beyond belief - he basically states that the DI wishes to attack the scientific method, and then claims that they aren't trying to attack the scientific method.
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Conservatives (read: Republicans) want to be allowed to engage in doublethink on stem cell research, like they do on the more basic tenets of “decency” and “morality.”
Think Progress » Defending Bush’s Veto, Rove Grossly Distorts Stem Cell Science
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He has been reduced on occasions this season to a kind of doublethink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of going on peace demonstrations and fulminating about the horrendous injustice and doublethink perpetrated by all participants, I should have been figuring the angles for profit opportunities!
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The regime does not stop trying to restore control, to bring you back into the fold of doublethink.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.
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This political doublethink seems to have struck down all sorts of people in high places.
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The names given to culs-de-sac betray the elitist doublethink running rife in planning offices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through exercises in doublethink and self-delusion described in detail by Revel, democracies are fatally prone to questioning their own motives and giving their opponents the benefit of the doubt.
Spilling the Beans in Paris and London
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There is a marvellous combination of doublespeak and doublethink here.
Times, Sunday Times
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A current example of Doublethink about normality is the way many mental health professionals classify behavior in old people.
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With its numerous examples of corporate doublethink and trendy PR jargon, this is the kind of book which bandies round words like ‘talent’ and ‘quality’ without actually bothering to wonder what they mean.
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This novel is sure to make you doublethink Orwell's version.
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Should this nomenclature be considered a better example of newspeak or doublethink?
Globe and Mail
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By an amazing exploit of doublethink, he manages to convince himself that theistic explanations are simple explanations.
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One essential consequence of doublethink is that the Party can rewrite history with impunity, for "The Party is never wrong.
Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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A nice man with a mastery of doublethink, perhaps, but you really believed that he didn't grasp the negative implications of his own political strategies.
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Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance.
The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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When it comes to concern for the effect of intervention on the locals, doublethink can really go into overdrive.
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Brotton is especially good on charting the doublethink involved in this effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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What's the difference between bisociation and Orwellian doublethink?
Bisociation, conspiracy, humor, and doublethink
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Ostensibly, she is the staunchest defender of the values of the country against those of the city, but her attitude reveals a degree of doublethink which suggests that her loyalty to tradition is not as steadfast as it might seem.
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He was in essence an illuminator of the darker recesses of the national psyche, a demythologiser-in-chief, a forensic dissector of PIRA-friendly doublethink, and a debunker of CJH at a time when it was far from fashionable.
Slugger O'Toole
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Adding insult to injury, the spokesman's comments drip with sophistry, doublethink and non sequiturs.
Times, Sunday Times
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But doublethink is a language you do not forget.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.
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Brechtian-style distanciation thus soon emerges as lazy, double-faced strategy on Rose's part: If something is unconvincing, it was meant to be, laying bare the device, speaking as if in quotes and all that film theory doublethink.
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Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink.
Think Progress » Hastert: Foley Misconduct Was Presented As Something That ‘Might Have Affected Campaigns’
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In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink (Orwell’s emphasis) to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished’ vii
Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The names given to culs-de-sac betray the elitist doublethink running rife in planning offices.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as I hope to show in my discussion of pro-choice reasoning, doublethink is not all that persuasive.
Feminism and Abortion
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Okay, he says, these societies may not become democracies as we know them, but they can become places where people can live free of doublethink, free of the fear of the knock on the door from the secret police.
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Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love.
Shaun Kenney Bombs?
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Outside the Inner Party, doublethink is not even consistent.
The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Are we being told that he was capable of a sort of spiritual doublethink, persuading himself of the religious truth through his desire to believe?
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I find that there's sometimes a curious case of doublethink going on in which the person with a low opinion of themselves realises at the same time that they are not quite as bad as they make themselves out to be.
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It's like doublethink or whatever, like in 1984.
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Witness this lovely specimen of bigoted doublethink.
