How To Use Orwellian In A Sentence
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There is something inhuman and Orwellian about technological systems designed to control behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now she was a bit player in my Orwellian nightmare.
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What we have is a political appeal to those of you wedded to the idea that you're ideological partners to Orwellian power brokers and molders of a new society.
A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism
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Napolitano, who doesn't think Drudge "means the nickname kindly" said at a recent Politico event that Drudge is wrong in describing DHS programs as Orwellian and that "the privacy impact of new airport screening technology and similar programs are thoroughly vetted before they are implemented," in
Forbes.com: News
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The word "Orwellian" is a daunting example of the fate that a distinguished writer can suffer at the hands of journalists.
The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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Second only to the inelegant word ‘Kafkaesque’, the term ‘Orwellian’ is the next most over-used adjective in the English language.
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According to this almost Orwellian way of thinking, a frozen carton of milk would be a better vanilla ice cream than either of them - and an ordinary ice cube would presumably scoop the highest prize of all.
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This Orwellian spirit encourages prying into individuals' thoughts and unguarded comments - while diverting attention from the issues that matter in our public life.
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With a bit of Orwellian newspeak, the scientists described the entities as ‘nuclear transfer constructs’ rather than early embryos, and avoided the language of ‘cloning’ altogether.
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Perhaps David and his like will only be happy when they are known as ‘Citizen 326789’ or some similar Orwellian label that suffocates what remains of individual freedom.
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McConnell and Boehner have repeated the Orwellian GOP strategy that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it one that worked with Iraq's non-existent WMD.
Paul Tullis: Tax Cut = Growth? Actually Not So Much
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The word Orwellian is still used to describe the language and actions of politicians who say one thing but carry out other, usually contradictory deeds.
Orwell's centenary: How he lives on
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For year after year, left wing jewish writers peddled an orwellian news-speak, distorting the freedoms of western society, throwing the term fascist at any libertarian who dared to suggest that socialism is an basic evil.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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There is something inhuman and Orwellian about technological systems designed to control behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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One might reach for the term Orwellian to describe such events, perhaps because there is no fitting way to convey the "up is down, black is white" sense of what has happened in Iraq and what is happening there now.
Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude
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Oh, he also fired the real founder and, in an Orwellian turn, pretends the guy never existed in press interviews.
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By excavating these ruins of information's past, the author hopes to gesture beyond totalizing visions of information society as knowledge-based utopia or Orwellian dystopia.
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My answer to them is "have you ever used the term Orwellian to describe what's happening in America today?
New York Times best selling author of "The Shell Game" Issues New Years Day Appeal to 9/11 Truth & Progressive Activists
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As I view our world from the holistic, biocentric viewpoint, rather than the common homocentric (arrogant humanistic) viewpoint, I can think only of the literal millions of lives being sacrificed in the Orwellian madness of the Bush wars and upon our cruel, unyielding roadways at home in terms of being an ecological disaster as well as a human one.
21st Century Roadkill
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And he has promised that even if we do achieve whatever Orwellian definition he ascribes to “victory” in Afghanistan, there will be more countries to destabilize, invade and occupy in the future.
So? What did you think? « Dating Jesus
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Yet within an amazingly brief period the new partner was introduced on to the scene and to certain people I automatically became yesterday's news, an Orwellian unperson.
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To call this Labour government "Orwellian" is an understatement.
Surveillance Britain (part xx)
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His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age.
Jura Duty
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Ministers huffed last week that they had no intention of developing Orwellian surveillance.
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Althouse criticizes what she calls the Orwellian use of “conversation” in current national debates:
The Volokh Conspiracy » National Conversations:
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And Amazon did little to gain user's trust with an ironically Orwellian intrusion of owners' Kindle devices in order to delete copies of 1984 and Animal Farm.
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But you can't call it "Orwellian," because that means Big Brother, Newspeak, the Gestapo, the K.G.B., the Stasi, and any other totalitarian obscenity that has ever reared its head or ever will.
The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)
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I instantly thought of the Orwellian newspeak at my own Manhattan school where achievement tests were the order of the day.
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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Orwellian is a word too easily, and usually wrongly, tossed about, but, really, here we are entering the Land of War-Is-Peace.
A sterling suggestion ...
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Rather than bleeping mere words, the CBC will undertake the ludicrous, Orwellian task of bleeping ideas.
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About their own camps, by contrast, the Soviet Union was able to exercise a sustained Orwellian denial.
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This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
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The adjective "Orwellian" is often used to describe any real world scenario reminiscent of the novel.
Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits.
Balkinization
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These public cameras - the embodiment of the Orwellian "telescreen" - have ushered in a new cinematography.
Yoani Sanchez: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us; Here Is the Video to Prove It
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Another minor point here is the lazy use of the term Orwellian in Anthony's piece, to describe the revolutionary fraternity associated with the term 'Brother.'
Cambodia: Details are Sketchy
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Ashcroft's immediate response to the attacks was to sink into a dark Orwellian morass of secret detentions, warrantless wiretaps, and eavesdropping on lawyers.
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His other claim to fame is to have steered the Orwellian Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill onto the Statute Book, a bill that would, in its unamended state, have allowed the Government to make laws without having to bother with the tedious business of Parliament approval.
Jim Murphy: Cuddly Bear or Ruthless Careerist Apparatchik?
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We've already analyzed the Orwellian strategy behind the phrase "entitlement reform," which is a well-crafted euphemism for "cutting services for the elderly.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security
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What's the difference between bisociation and Orwellian doublethink?
Bisociation, conspiracy, humor, and doublethink
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Crowley goes on to cite the Obama administration's "Orwellian coldness and efficiency" in "waging waged war on those who have had the gall to disagree with it.
When Bill Clinton was President, I truly believe the Democratic Party has allowed a certain level of preventable death and destr
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Indeed, previous ‘unpersons’ or ‘unplayers’ (in the Orwellian sense) now move to center stage.
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Sure, we need everything Brown wants, but I don't know how we can get there in a system so adept at hiding the real costs and spewing Orwellian newspeak whenever a voice of reason speaks out.
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Alas, somewhere over the last two decades or so, liberalism lost its root as the word liberal was perverted to the point of Orwellian inversion - and therefore rendered meaningless.
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This gracefully written summing-up celebrates the triumph of democracy over an Orwellian totalitarianism that had been touted as the wave of the future.
Uncontainable
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And unfettered advocacy for one, as you espouse, is clearly more Orwellian.
Mark Steyn Debates Complainants : Law is Cool
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In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison, whereas in the second - - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque.
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Randy has gotten full blown Orwellian newspeaked, he thinks privatization [subsidizing] is efficient yet wails against it because its nationalizing health care!!
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
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Others fear the creation of soulless cyborgs that make Orwellian predictions look timid.
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The language used by people like Simm and her ACPO chums is deeply sinister and indeed Orwellian.
Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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What was originally a graphic novel, updating an Orwellian tale of revolt against an authoritarian government to the Eighties, has become a movie that updates the same themes to the present day.
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Thus, in Tom Friedman's new eco-Orwellian "greenspeak," atomic energy and "clean coal" have become the equivalents of solar and wind power.
Harvey Wasserman: Is "Green" Tom Friedman the New Eco-Orwell of Solartopia?
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But to call him an emancipationist when he voluntarily delayed freeing 200 slaves because it wasn't in HIS interests to do so is positively Orwellian.
Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
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The first case is quite Orwellian in that the media, especially the state-owned media, serves as governments' obedient mouthpieces.
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The title centers around Faith Connors, an illegal courier who becomes embroiled in Orwellian city politics.
MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
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So looking at the theory, the Third Way seems to be nothing more than neo-liberalism cloaked in Orwellian newspeak.
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Maybe some hangers-on at “Homeland Security” (note to Obama: abolish this Orwellian agency) decided they were a clear and present danger. —
Ban on Strollers for Inauguration - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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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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The Portland building permit bureau -- whatever Orwellian name it goes by these days -- is broker than broke, and that means it may have to lay off even more employees than it's already pink-slipped.
Eat what you kill -- but at City Hall? (Jack Bog's Blog)
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As documented in my earlier-cited works, there exists an elaborate Orwellian language for routinely dealing with unwanted dates.
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SCTV once did a brilliant episode set on New Year's Eve 1983 in which, as soon as the countdown hit zero, all programming became Orwellian, straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with abundant newspeak and a still photo of Orson Welles as the face of Big Brother, glaring sternly from your "telescreen".
Eric Williams: Right Like Me
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Behind this mentality lies the progressive lobby's detestation of nationhood and Orwellian aspiration to world government.
