All 50 Uses of
direct
in
Brave New World
- "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room."
p. 3..9director = supervisor (person in charge)standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who." This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
- Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration.
p. 4..0
- A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels.
p. 4..2
- Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room.
p. 4..8
- "Bokanovsky's Process," repeated the Director, and the students underlined the words in their little notebooks.
p. 6..3
- "Scores," the Director repeated and flung out his arms, as though he were distributing largesse.
p. 7..3
- The Director wheeled sharply round on him.
p. 7..4
- "But, alas," the Director shook his head, "we can't bokanovskify indefinitely."
p. 8..0
- "That's the spirit I like!" cried the Director, and clapped Mr. Foster on the shoulder.
p. 9..4
- "Containing all the relevant information," added the Director.
p. 10..4
- "Give them a few figures, Mr. Foster," said the Director, who was tired of talking.
p. 11..6
- "That's the spirit I like," said the Director once more.
p. 12..4
- He was going to say "future World controllers," but correcting himself, said "future Directors of Hatcheries," instead.
p. 13..9directors = supervisors (people in charge)
- "Ass!" said the Director, breaking a long silence.
p. 14..5director = supervisor (person in charge)standard suffix: The suffix "-or" often converts a verb to a noun that means "a person who." This is the pattern you see in words like actor, editor, and visitor.
- "And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue–liking what you've got to do."
p. 16..5
- "Charming, charming," murmured the Director and, giving her two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself.
p. 16..9
- "Charming," said the Director once more, and, with a final pat, moved away after the others.
p. 17..3
- But the Director had looked at his watch.
p. 18..3
- The Director smiled indulgently.
p. 18..9
- The Director opened a door.
p. 19..3 *
- The Director rubbed his hands.
p. 20..7
- The Director waited until all were happily busy.
p. 20..9
- "And now," the Director shouted (for the noise was deafening), "now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock."
p. 21..2
- "We can electrify that whole strip of floor," bawled the Director in explanation.
p. 21..5
- "Observe," said the Director triumphantly, "observe."
p. 21..9
- The Director turned to his nurses.
p. 22..3
- "We condition the masses to hate the country," concluded the Director.
p. 23..3
- There was a silence; then, clearing his throat, "Once upon a time," the Director began, "while our Ford was still on earth, there was a little boy called Reuben Rabinovitch."
p. 23..6
- The Director interrupted himself.
p. 23..7
- The Director nodded approvingly.
p. 24..1
- "In brief," the Director summed up, "the parents were the father and the mother."
p. 24..2
- Here the Director made a sign of the T on his stomach and all the students reverently followed suit.
p. 25..3
- That howl, the Director made it plain, discouraged the earliest investigators.
p. 26..3
- "Whereas, if they'd only started on moral education," said the Director, leading the way towards the door.
p. 26..5
- The students and even the Director himself rose automatically to the tips of their toes.
p. 26..7
- Fifty yards of tiptoeing brought them to a door which the Director cautiously opened.
p. 26..9
- A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director.
p. 27..2
- The Director walked slowly down the long line of cots.
p. 27..4
- The Director walked up to it and pressed a switch.
p. 27..8
- The Director pushed back the switch.
p. 28..3
- Once more the Director touched the switch.
p. 28..8
- The Director almost shouted in his triumph.
p. 29..5
- The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.
p. 30..5
- "Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption."
p. 30..9
- "I always think," the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.
p. 31..7
- "What's the matter?" asked the Director.
p. 31..9
- "And so," she went on, turning back to the Director, "I'm taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology."
p. 32..2
- "Quite right," said the Director.
p. 32..3
- "And a very good name too," said the Director.
p. 32..4
- "Exquisite little creature!" said the Director, looking after her.
p. 32..6
Definition:
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(direct as in: directed the movie) supervise, control, or to be in charge of