All 50 Uses of
controller
in
Brave New World
- He was going to say "future World controllers," but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries," instead.†
p. 13..9
- Nowadays the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.†
p. 31..2
- One of the Ten World Controllers.†
p. 34..5 *
- "In the end," said Mustapha Mond, "the Controllers realized that force was no good.†
p. 50..7
- The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas.†
p. 223..3
- When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island.†
p. 223..8
- I was given the choice: to be sent to an island, where I could have got on with my pure science, or to be taken on to the Controllers' Council with the prospect of succeeding in due course to an actual Controllership.†
p. 227..4
- I was given the choice: to be sent to an island, where I could have got on with my pure science, or to be taken on to the Controllers' Council with the prospect of succeeding in due course to an actual Controllership.†
p. 227..5
- Not for all the Controllers in the world. l shall go away to-morrow too.†
p. 243..2
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- Controller!†
p. 33..8
- This is the Controller; this is his fordship, Mustapha Mond.†
p. 33..9
- The Resident Controller for Western Europe!†
p. 34..5
- "You all remember," said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, "you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.†
p. 34..8
- "That's why you're taught no history," the Controller was saying.†
p. 35..6
- There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller's study.†
p. 35..7
- The Controller's evocation was so vivid that one of the boys, more sensitive than the rest, turned pale at the mere description and was on the point of being sick.†
p. 37..3
- "Extremes," said the Controller, "meet.†
p. 39..6
- "I pierce it once," said the Controller.†
p. 41..4
- "Stability," said the Controller, "stability.†
p. 42..3
- "Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability.†
p. 43..2
- "Fortunate boys!" said the Controller.†
p. 44..2
- Frightened almost–as though she were a World Controller and he a Gamma-Minus machine minder.†
p. 45..3
- "Horrible; precisely," said the Controller.†
p. 45..8
- "Suffer little children," said the Controller.†
p. 56..7
- But the stamp of the World Controller's Office was at the head of the paper and the signature of Mustapha Mond, bold and black, across the bottom.†
p. 95..4
- At ten thirty-four they landed on the roof of the Santa Fé Post Office; at ten thirty-seven Bernard had got through to the World Controller's Office in Whitehall; at ten thirty-seven he was speaking to his fordship's fourth personal secretary; at ten forty-four he was repeating his story to the first secretary, and at ten forty-seven and a half it was the deep, resonant voice of Mustapha Mond himself that sounded in his ears.†
p. 141..2
- Intoxicated, he was behaving as though, at the very least, he were a visiting World Controller.†
p. 158..3
- The Controller skipped the next sentences and was just about to turn the page in search of something more interestingly concrete, when his eye was caught by a series of quite extraordinary phrases.†
p. 159..0
- They were met on the roof itself (for that circular letter of recommendation from the Controller was magical in its effects) by the Chief Technician and the Human Element Manager.†
p. 159..6
- The Resident World Controller's Second Secretary had asked her to dinner and breakfast.†
p. 165..7
- Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true.†
p. 177..8
- The room into which the three were ushered was the Controller's study.†
p. 217..1
- Idly he turned the pages, read a sentence here, a paragraph there, and had just come to the conclusion that the book didn't interest him, when the door opened, and the Resident World Controller for Western Europe walked briskly into the room.†
p. 218..3
- He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive; but, reassured by the good-humoured intelligence of the Controller's face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly.†
p. 218..5
- What would the Controller think?†
p. 218..6
- To be labelled as the friend of a man who said that he didn't like civilization–said it openly and, of all people, to the Controller–it was terrible.†
p. 218..7
- The Controller shrugged his shoulders.†
p. 219..3
- "Nice tame animals, anyhow," the Controller murmured parenthetically.†
p. 219..7
- And it's what you never will write," said the Controller.†
p. 220..0
- "Of course it is," the Controller agreed.†
p. 220..9
- The Controller laughed.†
p. 221..1 *
- Each one of us, of course," the Controller meditatively continued, "goes through life inside a bottle.†
p. 223..0
- He made a desperate effort to take the Controller's meaning.†
p. 225..4
- The Controller sighed.†
p. 226..1
- He jumped up, ran across the room, and stood gesticulating in front of the Controller.†
p. 226..3
- And in a paroxysm of abjection he threw himself on his knees before the Controller.†
p. 226..6
- In the end the Controller had to ring for his fourth secretary.†
p. 226..7
- "One would think he was going to have his throat cut," said the Controller, as the door closed.†
p. 226..9
- "Because, finally, I preferred this," the Controller answered.†
p. 227..4
- The Controller smiled.†
p. 229..0
Definitions:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, controller can refer to a person or thing that controls other people or things.
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(controller as in: hire a new controller) someone responsible for supervising an organization's financial matters -- especially for a business corporation