Orwell

[ awr-wel, -wuh l ]

/ ˈɔr wɛl, -wəl /

noun

GeorgeEric Arthur Blair,1903–50, English novelist and essayist.

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A fog of conspiracy—of logic against logic, as Orwell put it—has descended on every major event in the war.

Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin, Assad and ISIS |Christopher Dickey, Anna Nemtsova |November 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Orwell put his finger on the core problem years before he wrote 1984.

Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin, Assad and ISIS |Christopher Dickey, Anna Nemtsova |November 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But 70 years after Orwell wrote those words, doublethink seems to be winning.

Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin, Assad and ISIS |Christopher Dickey, Anna Nemtsova |November 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But Orwell went to Spain for the express purpose of killing fascists, as he makes clear in the book Brand is quoting from.

Russell Brand’s Revolution For Morons |Michael Moynihan |November 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.

Snowden Deserves the Medal of Freedom, Not Prosecution |Jay Parini |June 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Oh, I suppose not,” answered Orwell rather hastily, for to him the mysteries of spoor were simply a blank page.

In the Whirl of the Rising |Bertram Mitford
But this employment, in its turn, he soon relinquished, and became a fisherman on the river Orwell.

The History of Margaret Catchpole |Richard Cobbold
The men of Orwell had been seeking lords, each man for himself, in the most opposite quarters.

Domesday Book and Beyond |Frederic William Maitland
The tide was out at that time, and the banks of the Orwell are to this day a marvellous acreage of muddy foreshore at low water.

The Rivers of Great Britain: Rivers of the East Coast |Various
But the Saxon settlement at the head of the Orwell was doubtless the first of any importance.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6 |Various

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Orwell

/ (ˈɔːwəl, -wɛl) /

noun

George, real name Eric Arthur Blair. 1903–50, English novelist and essayist, born in India. He is notable for his social criticism, as in The Road to Wigan Pier (1932); his account of his experiences of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia (1938); and his satirical novels Animal Farm (1945), an allegory on the Russian Revolution, and 1984 (1949), in which he depicts an authoritarian state of the future

Derived forms of Orwell

Orwellian (ɔːˈwɛlɪən), adjective

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