All 4 Uses of
intelligible
in
1984 by Orwell
- But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible.†
p. 3..9 *
- He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same color, the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance — above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.†
p. 160..9
- The cyclical movement of history was now intelligible, or appeared to be so; and if it was intelligible, then it was alterable.†
p. 203..9
- The cyclical movement of history was now intelligible, or appeared to be so; and if it was intelligible, then it was alterable.†
p. 203..9
Definition:
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(intelligible) capable of being understood