The ghost of George Orwell may be conjured too readily and too often, these days, but this truly is Orwellian.
Orwellian, Malthusian, barbarous, depraved…I think you get me.
There has been an almost Orwellian artfulness in the way need-blind admissions policies are sold.
But while another bureaucracy may not be the answer (even the name sounds Orwellian), oversight is clearly needed.
Venezuelans are accustomed to their government using Orwellian language.
Your chapter, “Subjective Fear” highlights how Orwellian government can be in it circular word games.
Clive Irving on the Orwellian mass-surveillance data center rising in the Utah desert.
Two weeks ago, activists launched a petition asking the tech giant that once warned of an Orwellian future to reconsider the ban.
It is probably necessary to add that this is not an Orwellian satire or a right-wing fantasy: This school actually exists.
No one called them “attractions” anymore—all that old Orwellian Disneyspeak had been abolished.
1950 (first attested in Mary McCarthy), from English author George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair, 1903-1950), especially in reference to his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Ironically, it has come to be used in reference to the totalitarian systems he satirized.
It is as if George Orwell had conceived the nightmare instead of analyzed it, helped to create it instead of helping to dispel its euphemistic thrall. [Clive James]
