1 The confession was a formality, though the torture was real.
2 One could question him all day without getting any real information.
3 It was a good job it was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston thought.
4 Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act.
5 'You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,' he said almost sadly.
6 Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing.
7 Quite likely her real object had been to listen to him and make sure whether he was shouting loudly enough.
8 The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world.
9 In the absence of any real intercommunication between one part of Oceania and another, this was not difficult to arrange.
10 The landscape that he was looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he was never fully certain whether or not he had seen it in the real world.
11 As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.
12 Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie.
13 Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.
14 There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist drawn back for a blow was enough to make him pour forth a confession of real and imaginary crimes.
15 It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.
16 The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.
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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