All 10 Uses of
invariably
in
1984, by Orwell
- It was always at night — the arrests invariably happened at night.
p. 19.4invariably = always
- Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made.
p. 40.7 *invariably = almost always (said in exaggeration)
- Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
p. 40.7invariably = always
- You could not invariably assume this to be the case when people were arrested.
p. 45.9
- Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so.
p. 56.0
- But — though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to — it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening.
p. 65.4
- The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
p. 71.9
- The thing you invariably came back to was the impossibility of knowing what life before the Revolution had really been like.
p. 72.4
- But I am afraid I invariably forget anything of that kind.
p. 158.5
- She took it for granted that he, 'the boy', should have the biggest portion; but however much she gave him he invariably demanded more.
p. 162.3
Definition:
never changing; or always the same