totalitarian

Example Sentences

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In 1948 George Orwell identified “Newspeak” as an essential component of the totalitarian toolkit: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” her prescient novel of totalitarian dictatorship, began with the group hanging scene, which was shifted to the back of the book.

From Los Angeles Times

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

From Salon

This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

From Salon

What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.

From Los Angeles Times