All 3 Uses of
censor
in
Atlas Shrugged
- And with no time to know it, but knowing it, seizing it with his senses past the censorship of his mind, he was seeing a black silhouette with red rays shooting from behind its shoulders, its elbows, its angular curves, the red rays circling through steam like the long needles of spotlights, following the movements of a swift, expert, confident being whom he had never seen before except in evening clothes under the lights of ballrooms.†
Chpt 2.3
- If you breathe the word 'censorship' now, they'll all scream bloody murder.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Your mind then became a fixed jury who takes orders from a secret underworld, whose verdict distorts the evidence to fit an absolute it dares not touch-and a censored reality is the result, a splintered reality where the bits you chose to see are floating among the chasms of those you didn't, held together by that embalming fluid of the mind which is an emotion exempted from thought.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(censor as related to censorship) to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, politically unacceptable, or a security threat
or:
a person who decides which such material should be removed or suppressed