Orwell

//ˈoɹwɛl//

"Orwell" in a Sentence (11 examples)

You’re fired! Because we don't need any amateurs who've never read Orwell.

The writer George Orwell was watched for about twelve years by the British police.

Today we know that George Orwell was an optimist.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.

The work of George Orwell has been subverted by the same kind of counterrevolutionary elements he fought in Spain and opposed during World War II.

George Orwell was a violent antifascist.

George Orwell was a supporter of what we now know as "political correctness," considering it to be "only the most ordinary politeness."

George Orwell believed there was a lot to be hopeful about in the Soviet Union, despite its problems.

George Orwell went all the way to Spain just to kill fascists.

Without bad dictators, what would Orwell be writing about?

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Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality.

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