TERRIFIED in Classic Quotes

1  The Party prisoners seemed terrified of speaking to anybody, and above all of speaking to one another.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

2  He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

3  The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to care nothing for anybody.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1

4  The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the fifties and sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

5  The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7