All 13 Uses of
appeal
in
1984 by Orwell
- How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
p. 27..7 (definition 1) *appeal = request
- That's the detail that appeals to me.
p. 49..9 (definition 2) *appeals = is attractive or desirable
- It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips.
p. 63..5 (definition 2)appealed = was attractive
- All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
p. 71..8 (definition 1)appealed = called upon
- What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one.
p. 95..8 (definition 2)appealed = was attractive
- Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain. A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her.
p. 105..9 (definition 1)appealing = as though asking for help
- The reduction in the number of verbs — that is the point that will appeal to you, I think.
p. 158..5 (definition 2)appeal = be attractive
- It systematically undermines the solidarity of the family, and it calls its leader by a name which is a direct appeal to the sentiment of family loyalty.
p. 216..5 (definition 1)appeal = request (something made to call upon or be attractive to)
- He paused opposite Winston and began eagerly appealing to him: 'You don't think they'll shoot me, do you, old chap?'
p. 232..9 (definition 1)appealing = asking
- Most of the time they screamed abuse at him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him wish to undo the evil he had done.
p. 242..1 (definition 1)appeal = ask
- When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to snivelling tears.
p. 242..2 (definition 1)appeal = request
- Your mind appeals to me.
p. 259..1 (definition 2)appeals = is attractive
- But there were other days when they settled down to their work almost eagerly, making a tremendous show of entering up their minutes and drafting long memoranda which were never finished — when the argument as to what they were supposedly arguing about grew extraordinarily involved and abstruse, with subtle haggling over definitions, enormous digressions, quarrels threats, even, to appeal to higher authority.
p. 294..9 (definition 1)appeal = make a request
Definitions:
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(1) (appeal as in: appealed for help) a request or the act of asking -- sometimes specifically for help or that a decision be overturned
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(2) (appeal as in: appeals to youthful tastes) attractiveness or desirability; or to be attractive or desirable