“... the intense pleasure of the occasion: ‘The feeling of being alone in the midst of a vast crowd, unknown to everyone, sheltered from all curious eyes, surrounded by people from whom we wanted to hide, and separated from them by a fragile and yet invincible barrier, this way of living uniquely for one another, amidst these waves of the multitude, seemed to us ...”

“... recoils when he is invited to join a cause: ‘to yield was to cease to be myself, to trust to the unknown.’ For such a man, any regulated state of affairs will be preferable to the chaos which results from an attempt to change things for the better. There is, then, a tension in A Way in the World between the intellectual force of Naipaul’s vision and the ...”

“... Pascal, lived upstairs in a flat no one had ever seen, with his wife and children, who, too, were unknown figures. Yet it was said that Mr Pascal sometimes descended the stairs at six o’clock with a rifle in his hand, strode to the centre of the empty quad where during the day they played basketball, and shot at the pigeons decreed to be a nuisance in ...”

“... exception of the early satyric scenes and battle pieces, his work did not need to sell itself to unknown purchasers. His paintings were commissioned, but also seen by viewers whose concerns were quite different from those of the original patron. Indeed, Poussin’s output was often determined by these divisions in his audience: not only did patrons living in ...”

“... and inflects the worlds around him. Kelman wants to characterise the political antagonisms, the unknown powers, which oppress Sammy, but he can’t come near to doing it convincingly, since Sammy’s mysterious opponents are not people, not in the way he is; they are not from Glasgow or from anywhere else. They are deadening, posh-sounding ...”

“... of carrying the child: She longs to fold to her maternal breast Part of herself, yet to herself unknown; To see and to salute the stranger guest, Fed with her life through many a tedious moon. The quatrain stanza is used here to reflect, and to reflect upon, the interfolding of the mother and her womb-child, their own relation an intimate paradox of the ...”

“... situation is taken to be, not ‘is this by Middleton or Ford?’, but ‘is this by Defoe or an unknown?’ (or, as the authors put it, ‘Defoe against the world’). That this is an exaggeration, albeit an exaggeration of a real difference, is shown by the work which has been done to assign Defoe attributions to other known writers of the period. I cannot ...”

“... in its balance of sympathy and informed scepticism, now offers a selection of poems well-known and unknown, neatly annotated and presented under new headings designed to remind us of how many more contexts the real Coleridge occupied than his myth ever seemed to. Some of the same poems make an appearance in Morton Paley’s admirable study of Coleridge’s ...”

“... Exiles. He was a heavy drinker who would nowadays be considered an alcoholic; he was penniless and unknown. He had published only a slender book of even more slender verse. Trieste, where he taught English, was an international city, but from his point of view decidedly provincial, far from the metropolitan centres that dominated the literary scene. In the ...”

“... of Schizophrenia’. The author could perfectly well maintain that there probably is a definite unknown neuropathology Z that is the cause of prototypical and most other examples of what we now call schizophrenia. But he could also argue that the idea of schizophrenia, expressed in the stereotype, is a social construct that interacts not only with ...”

“... There is the ethnologist Marcel Appenzzell who pursues for five years and 11 months an unknown tribe of Sumatrans without getting them once to acknowledge his existence; there is the domino-playing hamster Polonius; there is Cinoc, the word-killer, who is hired by Larousse to diagnose obsolete words and eliminate them from the dictionary but ...”

“... league with women in other parts. They agreed that no one should pay their rent. Out there was an unknown land, with pain and broken bodies. The thing to do was to hold your ground. The women’s emotion rose up like smoke, and joined the air of political fact, as if somewhere they could hear the guns, and picture their husbands crying for shame. The Rent ...”

“... exhibitions were still put on at the gallery – including a show lasting an afternoon by the unknown Gilbert and George – before it closed towards the end of 1969. And if Fraser became enraptured at this time with India, he was only following a pattern that takes over most of us who go there. Jann Haworth summarises the rest of the story: After he ...”

“... themselves. Our conscious choices, it suggested, may be as nothing compared with our unconscious (unknown beforehand) powers of discrimination. The problem for the newly emerging 19th-century democrat was that to disdain popularity was to disdain people. If culture wasn’t popular, why should it be called culture? And yet the art of capturing the public ...”

“... itself at the present rate, the year 2100 will see the 25th edition, whether in print or some unknown form. The thought does not seem as absurd as it might, for the canniness with which successive editions have sloughed off dated entries matches an uncanny ability to breathe new life into old texts. Monumental without being mausolean, this latest Norton ...”