1 But the physical difficulty of meeting was enormous.
2 He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life.
3 He was glad that this was happening, but he had no physical desire.
4 But the truth was that he had no physical sensation, except that of mere contact.
5 She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.
6 It was a physical problem that had to be solved: how to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting.
7 But he abandoned the idea immediately, because even the thought of making any physical effort was unbearable.
8 Between life and death, and between physical pleasure and physical pain, there is still a distinction, but that is all.
9 In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality.
10 Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so.
11 But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly-trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties.
12 It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.
13 Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds.
14 Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek.
15 How easy it was, thought Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type set up by the Party as an ideal--tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree--existed and even predominated.
16 If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.
17 The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
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