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Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.
He was especially harsh with his former friend Ernest Dowden, who espoused a benevolent Irish cosmopolitanism in opposition to Yeats' literary nationalism.
Santa is a role model for our ambitious children, the perfect benevolent tycoon.
After watching a Moyers documentary, you are likely to be--for no rational reason--in a warmhearted, benevolent, slightly euphoric mood: I feel better for having watched this . Moyers is a glass of chardonnay before dinner, a small toke on a marijuana joint.
A benevolent dictatorship would be the best form of government, except for one distressing fact.