He was good at scorn, as in this pair of sentences from 1944, when he launched a minor campaign against the lazy invocation of jackboots: “Ask a journalist what a jackboot is, and you will find that he does not know. Yet he goes on talking about jackboots.”
He (Orwell) was good at scorn, as in this pair of sentences from 1944, when he launched a minor campaign against the lazy invocation of jackboots: “Ask a journalist what a jackboot is, and you will find that he does not know. Yet he goes on talking about jackboots.”
