“... by which the guilty élitist would purge himself of his élitism and throw in his lot with the anonymous masses. Camus had a deeper reason to throw in his lot with those masses than ever Sartre did. Sartre was a bourgeois, root and branch; Camus was not, he was an oddity, an intellectual on the liberal left who had actually been born into the ...”

“... Alan Bennett says he had little faith that Peter’s drink problem would be solved at Alcoholics Anonymous – Peter’s sense of the ridiculous would be bound to overcome him at the meetings. Similarly, he could never have joined, or with any consistency supported, a political party without quickly being disgusted by its humbug or convulsed by its ...”

“... have any doubts about the Thunder Run, but the BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus quoted an anonymous colleague’s description of it as the ‘longest drive-by shooting in history’ and some members of British intelligence have wondered if the tank column took the wrong road. This seems unlikely. I spoke to an Iraqi doctor called Jalal al-Samarrai who ...”

“... with the tiniest of gaps between the two. In the late 1990s he further emphasised this peculiarly anonymous quality of the surface when he began using silkscreen images, taken from photographs of his own work. He went the full Warhol, as it were. Painted loops were photographed, turned into silkscreen, and then printed directly back on canvas, a reiteration ...”

“... and pulp romance. As a draughtsman, Baxter is incomparably more accomplished than his usually anonymous predecessors, but he achieves (as it were) the same nerveless outline – an effect of melting bakelite and overstretched rubber bands – and the same indecisively granular texture. The relation between picture and narrative caption is perfectly ...”

“... in the sense of favourably, reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, and what it is to contribute to this anonymous publication. With Cockburn’s friend Francis Jeffrey as editor, the journal had been running for almost ten years as an instrument of the Whig persuasion, and was to run on as such into a future that held the Parliamentary triumph of 1832, when the ...”

“... in Robinson in Space. It shares much with the first two: the immobile camera frames bits of anonymous infrastructure and residual pastoral, mostly filmed not far from Keiller’s home in Oxford, and the whole is propelled by a story about land use and power over several centuries, voiced this time by Vanessa Redgrave. But it is in some ways a different ...”

“... is by no means adequate, but I suspect that you very greatly overrate the novel.’ In the days of anonymous reviewing editorial standards of impartiality were often compromised. Scott’s authorship of the Waverley novels was an open secret in the literary world but in 1816 Murray co-published his collected Tales of My Landlord, which carried no claim to be ...”

“... James’s to be published, in the Atlantic Monthly of March 1865, and ‘A Tragedy of Error’, an anonymous story that appeared in the Continental Monthly of February 1864 and is generally accepted to be James’s work (it’s included in Leon Edel’s edition of the shorter fiction), Horowitz became convinced that they were much too ...”

“... the style of the public galleries, which space it out and seclude you and the work within an anonymous white box. In the Fine Art Society, on the other hand, you not only find furniture and pottery (Gersaint, too, sold more than pictures – on the counter, alongside the mirror, is a dressing case) but also walls close-packed with pictures.Then there is ...”

“... tunnels. There are pictures of Churchill at a window and Attlee on the hustings, but it is the anonymous characters you think about; the historical figures are already settled in your mind. The style of photography – the whole scene, not the close-up, the aftermath of the raid rather than the flames and falling buildings – was already ...”

“... that members of the Taliban made of themselves.) In the early 1970s Mikhailov began hand-colouring anonymous found photographs with aniline dyes. There are studio portraits of men in military uniform, given scarlet or pink backdrops. (Two of these are already peculiar images: a soldier holding a child’s doll; two young sailors with a teddy bear.) A man with ...”

“... after my brother’s death, I was shaken. Someone once suggested to him that he check out Gamblers Anonymous. But he’d have to put that one on the list with Alcoholics Anonymous, Drugs Anonymous, Sex Anonymous, Fighting ...”

“... pick-up truck which had since been sold without its plates. The archbishop’s office received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who said they should investigate ‘Colonel Lima Oliva’. ODHA couldn’t find anyone of that name and rank, but the father of Captain Lima Oliva, Byron Disrael Lima Estrada, was a recently retired colonel, who had been in ...”

“... Third Policeman (1940), which presents a triple layer of imaginary fictions: the book concerns an anonymous amateur scholar who reveres a sage called de Selby whose (imaginary) works – including Golden Hours and Country Album – are listed with footnotes and page numbers, alongside (invented) critical works on de Selby (including Conspectus of the de Selby ...”