1 Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
2 At sight of the heavy, lined face, so ugly and so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over.
3 And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.
4 In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
5 His heavy face, bent down so that one could see the line of the nose, looked both formidable and intelligent.
6 It is learned by the majority of Party members, and certainly by all who are intelligent as well as orthodox.
7 The cyclical movement of history was now intelligible, or appeared to be so; and if it was intelligible, then it was alterable.
8 Some of the B words had highly subtilized meanings, barely intelligible to anyone who had not mastered the language as a whole.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 It was strong and fleshy and brutal, it was full of intelligence and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt himself helpless; but it was tired.
10 Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly-created words, would be barely intelligible to an English-speaker of our own day.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 11 The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes.
12 War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
13 He did not suppose, from what he could remember of her, that she had been an unusual woman, still less an intelligent one; and yet she had possessed a kind of nobility, a kind of purity, simply because the standards that she obeyed were private ones.
14 Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
15 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
16 At the Ministry he was employed in some subordinate post for which intelligence was not required, but on the other hand he was a leading figure on the Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns, and voluntary activities generally.