What is "telescreens"

Usage examples of "telescreens".

Several banks of telescreens and oscilloscopes flanked the instrument panel.

The great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes.

Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve.

Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations -- that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.

There was no place where you could be more certain that the telescreens were watched continuously.

If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not too near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round -- if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words.

There were no telescreens, of course, but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized.

And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds of thousands or even millions of men were often killed in a few weeks, have never been repeated.

The elevator depressed Enderby to a vestibule with telescreens on the wall, each channel showing something different but always people unbent on violence or breaking in, it being too early in the day and probably too cold.

Audley, the black guard, sat in his chair in the warmth of the foyer, while the many telescreens showed dull programmes -- people muffled up hurrying round the corner, the basement empty, the main porch newly free of entering Enderby.

We were scattered over quite a wide area, and had as yet not produced enough telescreens for every house, so that communication was limited to direct personal travel by plane.