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1  They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
2  A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
4  But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  Factories, mines, land, houses, transport--everything had been taken away from them: and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
9  His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9