Idiom
book burning
Meaning
Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The regime ordered book burning to silence its critics.”
“After the revolution, angry crowds gathered in the square for book burning of everything written by the old rulers.”
“Historians now view that summer's widespread book burning not merely as vandalism, but as a calculated effort to erase an entire generation's dissenting voices from public memory.”
Examples
simple
“The regime ordered book burning to silence its critics.”
contextual
“After the revolution, angry crowds gathered in the square for book burning of everything written by the old rulers.”
complex
“Historians now view that summer's widespread book burning not merely as vandalism, but as a calculated effort to erase an entire generation's dissenting voices from public memory.”
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