Words similar to omniscient
Example sentences for: omniscient
How can you use “omniscient” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
They will give you a feeling of being there, not as an omniscient historian of 1997 looking back at 1837 or 1897 but as an ordinary citizen who shares--and is limited by--the information, the concerns, and the values of those times.
Simpson here plays omniscient narrator for the first time, and the poetic intensity and sure rhythms that drove the monologues of her first novel and still echoed in her second are gone.
Now the story is told by an omniscient narrator, now a TV reporter, now a participant.
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.
An omniscient spellbinder who was also cynical and limited--that's not the worst legacy a filmmaker can have, especially one who gave us some of our culture's most enduring visions of the absurdity of war, both satirical ( Dr. Strangelove ) and gruelingly earnest ( Paths of Glory ).
Loading...