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1  The expression on his face changed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The expression on O'Brien's face did not change.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
4  It occurred to Winston that a synthetic face was perhaps incapable of changing its expression.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expression on his face was still indecipherable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  O'Brien was looking down at him with an expression which suggested that the same thought might be in his own mind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  But there was a space of a couple of seconds during which the expression of his eyes might conceivably have betrayed him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  Even before he was near enough to make out the expression on their faces, Winston could see absorption in every line of their bodies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
11  One day--but 'one day' was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night: once--he fell into a strange, blissful reverie.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  A little of the official atmosphere seemed to have fallen away from him with the Newspeak words, but his expression was grimmer than usual, as though he were not pleased at being disturbed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
17  They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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