“... if a shade nervously, he discourses about what scientists are doing to the atom; while he writes, unknown to him, the first atom bomb is being prepared for delivery. Leacock enjoyed being Canada’s leading ‘character’. At the same time, he was a good university administrator and a good educator. A contemporary description of him says: ‘He has a fine ...”

“... any decision to go back on the original referendum result would represent another leap into the unknown. Critics of Brexit rightly mock the Churchillian aspirations of its diehard supporters, who see in it a chance for Britain to show what it’s made of by going it alone. We are likely to discover that going it alone in the 21st century just means getting ...”

“... in Singer’s life was explained in an introductory note by a Conjunctions associate editor, an unknown 22-year-old American called Jonathan Safran Foer. ‘These pages of Singer’s are not great literature,’ Foer wrote. ‘Surely they were never intended to be published’: But like all great literature, like the stories, plays and poems by which these ...”

“... has been very well translated by George Holoch. The book’s frequent references to French names unknown across the Channel could put English readers off: but curiosity may prevail with a British public which finds itself abruptly transported into the unfamiliar territory of French political life under the Third and Fourth Republics. The book was written ...”

“... expertise. But if the unconscious is what cannot be anticipated, can there then be experts of the unknown? ‘The weather,’ as Freud puts it here, ‘of course never comes from the quarter one has been carefully observing.’ If you locate psychoanalysis somewhere between literature and science it can begin to look like a legitimate and intelligible social ...”

“... east of Dresden. The journey, more than four hundred miles on a slow train in high summer to an unknown destination, must have been more gruelling than anything he had so far experienced in the war. At one point he witnessed a near riot as hundreds of dehydrated men fought to get at a single outlet where water was being distributed. He refused to join in ...”

“... the overwhelming theme, the eventual comfort. But burying infants we bury the future, unwieldy and unknown, full of promise and possibilities, outcomes punctuated by our rosy hopes. The grief has no borders, no limits, no known ends and the little infant graves that edge the corners and fence-rows of every cemetery are never quite big enough to contain that ...”

“... In much the same way, the first three Official Secrets Acts may have been directed more at unknown future subversives than at the foreign spies who provided their excuse. It cannot be a mere accident that these successive entrenchments of the principle that governments could choose their own targets for surveillance roughly coincided with the moments ...”

“... Mathews argues, ‘what they must translate is not something already known but what is unknown and unpredictable. The writer is an Oho who has just heard what the Uhas say.’ In a further twist he also insists that it is only by venturing into the unknown that writer and reader can hope to make provisionally ...”

“... into action. In September 1906, an Atlanta newspaper printed an extra edition yowling about an unknown black man who had assaulted three white women and got away; could good men no longer protect their women? Thousands of white men were soon racing through the streets. They burst into black businesses and dragged away the proprietors, they stopped ...”

“... story set in Italy). The title page attributes this quarto to one Robert Yarington, otherwise unknown as an author. He was probably only the copyist – a Robert Yarington is recorded as a member of the Scriveners’ Company in 1603, and had a brother, John, who was also a scrivener (i.e. professional scribe) – though his role may well have extended to ...”

“... of the self that really matters. We hope the biographer will discover illicit correspondences and unknown sources, identifying patterns and materials that might explain what the novelist does and how she does it. In popular biography, we are well used to the ticker-tape parade of encomia, the dance of praise and awards, the flutter of newspaper cuttings and ...”

“... or, as he put it, of ‘musical expectancy’. Cécile had written of suffering from ‘an unknown, distant music’, and of a ‘window’ where ‘all the Orient sings in my being’ – a premonition, he claimed, of his career in music, even of his interest in Asia. His mother was absent for much of his childhood, but she ‘never doubted for an ...”

“... organisation to prepare the way for the framing of suggestions leading towards this aim’. An unknown professor rises to speak about the path of history, a Frau Weghuber proposes a ‘Great Austrian Franz Joseph Soup Kitchen’, General Stumm puts in a word for the re-equipment of the Army, Frau Tuzzi urges the formation of a baroque structure of ...”

“... unearthed in many parts of Europe. Many are astonishing. What their meaning and purpose was is unknown. But between the Palaeolithic Venuses and the various upright or seated ‘goddesses’ of the Neolithic there does seem a passage, a preservation of skills, a rough agreement about how to make an effective effigy. In the realm of depiction, the opposite ...”