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1  At first, indeed, she failed to grasp the point of the story.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
2  It is only emotionally that you have failed to make progress.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
3  Ampleforth failed to see Winston and sat down at another table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
4  He turned round, and for a second almost failed to recognize her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
5  You are here because you have failed in humility, in self-discipline.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
6  The light was failing, but there was no difficulty in recognizing her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
7  He began telling Julia of something that had happened, or rather had failed to happen, on another sweltering summer afternoon, eleven years ago.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
8  Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  And when memory failed and written records were falsified--when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8