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Big Brother
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  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.   (source)
    Big Brother = an organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference.   (source)
    Big Brother = a person or organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration,   (source)
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own.   (source)
    Big Brother = an organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • What were his true feelings towards Big Brother?   (source)
    Big Brother = a person or organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
  • Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.   (source)
  • He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.   (source)
  • ...DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page.   (source)
  • There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother.   (source)
  • BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said.   (source)
  • Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world.   (source)
  • There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother.   (source)
  • Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful.   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER was written all over it, in letters almost big enough to be legible across the room.   (source)
  • His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER...   (source)
  • ... down with big brother. He sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and laid down the pen.   (source)
  • In that sense, does Big Brother exist?   (source)
  • Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.   (source)
  • If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?'   (source)
  • Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.   (source)
  • Tell me, Winston — and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect a lie — tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?   (source)
  • The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them.   (source)
  • But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.   (source)
  • Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.   (source)
  • He thought of Big Brother.   (source)
  • You must love Big Brother.   (source)
  • He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i don't care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with...   (source)
  • With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.   (source)
  • Will Big Brother ever die?   (source)
  • To the death of Big Brother?   (source)
  • Down with Big Brother!   (source)
  • He went back to the table, dipped his pen, and wrote: To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!   (source)
  • He loved Big Brother.   (source)
  • He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words,…   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER   (source)
  • ...Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.   (source)
    Big Brother = (of an) organization that attempts to exercise total control over people and that invades their privacy to do so
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  • Instead, my big brother's all-caps texts appear on the screen.†   (source)
  • Luke was my big brother; I thought he would know what to do, so I grabbed his shoulders and shook him, hard.†   (source)
  • We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss.†   (source)
  • Maybe a big brother who kept bugging him not to be so wild?†   (source)
  • "You're welcome," he says, just like his big brother.†   (source)
  • I guess I realized I had to be a big brother, you know?†   (source)
  • Lotte imagined her son must see Martin as the big brother he had always wished for.†   (source)
  • Tony wanted the best for Wes, but he still felt that part of his mission as a big brother was to toughen him up for the battles Tony knew Wes would have to fight as he got older.†   (source)
  • He's like my big brother.†   (source)
  • The little one looked at his big brother to see why I was asking all this stuff.†   (source)
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  • I was sorry to see my big brother leave, but it was a relief also.†   (source)
  • Sheku and Josiah stood next to me as if sharing a tent with them meant that I had become their big brother.†   (source)
  • "Wow," said the brothers, gazing up at their big brother.†   (source)
  • He's our big brother.†   (source)
  • He will be the big brother you never had.†   (source)
  • I'm talking to my new friend Mai, but even her always-surly and scary-because-he's-older big brother, Quang-ha, says a few words to me in their now only semisecret language.†   (source)
  • And nine months later your father and I had our proof of citizenship, a baby boy, your big brother Winston.†   (source)
  • Big brother has to tolerate too many silly conversations and dance with a lot of annoying girls.†   (source)
  • I'm going with you," six-year-old Sampson Davis boldly told his big brother, Andre.†   (source)
  • Long ago, in his youth, when he'd been a "troubled teen," as he told her without elaboration, a social worker at his school had signed him up for the Big Brother program, and he'd always felt that his big brother—his mentor, he calls him—kept him on track.†   (source)
  • But after a few months, when the big brother upstairs turned out to be Big Brother, she got on her bicycle and rode through the neighborhood of her high school days until she spotted an apartment with fresh-painted walls and masking tape on the windows.†   (source)
  • It belongs to my big brother.†   (source)
  • There are worse things than being a Third, worse things than a big brother who can't make up his mind whether to be a human being or a jackal.†   (source)
  • And then, seeming to realize he'd spoken too curtly: "Welty was Juliet's big brother.†   (source)
  • But Malachy is gone to the army and you're here and I have no big brother.†   (source)
  • Juliet looked at her big brother.†   (source)
  • If you want to put tears on your tiger or dragons in your jungle, you tell your teacher that your big brother said it was just fine.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't be their big brother.†   (source)
  • Even Big Larry, whom I once considered my "big brother," brushed me off before he moved out.†   (source)
  • He could practically feel his big brother's hand on his shoulder, smell his breath, hear his voice speaking quietly in the darkness.†   (source)
  • I was still big brother, hoping to protect him.†   (source)
  • He was trying to sound firm like a big brother, but he was also looking at me strangely, as though I'd done something amazing and he couldn't quite believe my daring.†   (source)
  • George took his responsibility as a big brother seriously.†   (source)
  • He was more interested in Michael's capacity to serve as an entertaining big brother and wily co-conspirator.†   (source)
  • And Nick also wanted to give some money to his big brother, James—who said he did not need it and would not accept it.†   (source)
  • I still had a great deal of little-sister worship for this big brother, five years older than I, an ordained minister and the only ten Boom who had ever been to college.†   (source)
  • Ahmad tried playing the big brother.†   (source)
  • Big Brother.†   (source)
  • I looked up to him, but not as a big brother.†   (source)
  • "I had this Sunday School teacher," Ellerby goes on, "and every time I asked her a tough question—like 'How come nobody ever caught Jack the Ripper?' or 'Why did my big brother get killed when he got straight A's clear through college and was going into the seminary?'—she'd say the Lord works in strange and mysterious ways that we may not understand."†   (source)
  • She turns her face to look at him, her big brother, her ally in all things, but his face is too close and she can't see the whole of it.†   (source)
  • Jai and I will bring Dylan along as well, since every experience Logan has these days doesn't seem complete unless he's engaged in the action with his big brother.†   (source)
  • That's the way I always felt about him, like he was my big brother and could do just about anything.†   (source)
  • Me and my big brother were going to be road trippers.†   (source)
  • She's very excited about seeing her big brother.†   (source)
  • No tears for your big brother?†   (source)
  • Today Curtis is an engineer, and I'm still proud of my big brother.†   (source)
  • Quil will be the best, kindest big brother any kid ever had.†   (source)
  • Oh, Peter adored his big brother.†   (source)
  • Then: "He's the only big brother I got."†   (source)
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