“... best known of all. The most famous American poem of the Victorian age is ‘Away in a manger’ (anonymous), with ‘O little town of Bethlehem’ (Phillips Brooks) and ‘Dear Lord and Father of mankind’ (John Greenleaf Whittier) as runners-up. Among the works of the canonical English poets, the lines known to most people are probably those beginning ...”

“... the Rwandan economy has been growing at a rate of 7 per cent a year, but according to an anonymous statistician in the Review of African Political Economy only South Sudan has experienced ‘a faster increase in poverty’. Two-thirds of the population now lives below the poverty line, an increase of 15 per cent in a decade.Wrong’s book is a record ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... with which his own productions were received, even those most lavishly praised in numerous ‘anonymous’ reviews, which were all of course penned by Whitman himself. Nevertheless, his belief in America’s overriding need for a new kind of poetry in order to fulfil the promises inherent in democracy never wavered, and it burns brightly, at times indeed ...”

“... in one text and the transformations and solutions in the other. Pornography and fairytale are both anonymous forms, and it is tempting to confuse the anonymous with the natural or archetypal. The Sadeian Woman, a book about pornography, was not popular with feminists (and no one else would want to read it). The Bloody ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... million in 2005. In April 2011, IMS Health – which now claims to have more than 500 million anonymous patient data records – went to the Supreme Court to challenge the bans, and won. Justice Anthony Kennedy argued that ‘speech in aid of pharmaceutical marketing … is a form of expression protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First ...”

“... tried to establish Qilin’s identity and motivations. ‘Our attacks are not accidental,’ an anonymous representative from Qilin told the Register. ‘We choose only those companies whose management is directly or indirectly affiliated with the political elites of a particular country. The politicians of these countries do not keep their word, they ...”

“... that assumption, he reflects that when a lot of people lose a lot of money, there must be others, anonymous, who simultaneously make a lot of money. The irrational euphoria prompting individuals and corporations to such absurd behaviour should be measurable, so Marvin sits down at his computer and builds a model which can predict the point at which the ...”

“... kept secret, WikiLeaks was a faceless organisation, staffed – we could assume – by an army of anonymous volunteers. Gradually, of course, it came to be represented by a single face: the striking, ghostly one of Julian Assange. It wasn’t Assange’s fault that – in 2010, not long after he released the video he called Collateral Murder, showing US ...”

“... are left behind try to think of what might have been a good parting shot, or to find a suitably anonymous bin to chuck the departed’s silk pyjamas into. They are staring into the three holes of the telephone from which they have just received their marching orders, or trying to muster a kiss in a public museum in front of a ...”

“... stone walls, an empty château, a shabby graveyard. The people who inhabit these scenes are not anonymous but they seem accidental. ‘I think of tiny figures in old landscape paintings,’ Varda said. And yet we learn more about them – the Moroccan and Tunisian farmworkers, the tramps, the goat-breeding dropouts, the tree-saving professor, the rich old ...”

“... violating neutral space: bloodying the parking lot, the filling station, the school forecourt. Anonymous though these places are, they’re vital to our going about our business. They’re ours. Everybody’s. They’re what make suburbs possible. The shots weren’t coming from the inner city, but they drowned out the ones constantly being fired there ...”

“... What does​ a wedding look like in an Ozu film? Two large hired cars outside an anonymous block of flats. Inside the building, father and elder brother in sleek Western morning suits, younger brother in smart but more casual clothes. Sister-in-law very tidy in black traditional Japanese dress. Bride cloaked in a mountainous confection of pink and white silk, topped by a hat that looks like a small but heavy monument ...”

“... of purely abstract form through which to walk, in which to linger and on which to play, a free and anonymous monument which, because of its independence, can lift the activity and psychology of an urban housing community on to a universal plane’. It was both a Modernist statement and a reinvention of a popular 18th-century landscape feature, the Palladian ...”