“... oohs and aahs from visitors. Not least because the curators have plumped for poetry. They bow to unknown unknowns, declaring in the entrance lobby that the monument remains a ‘mystery’. An audio system immerses you in birds warbling and waters rushing as you turn into the first main gallery and are introduced to those hunter-gatherers who, from around ...”

“... as any other citizen.’ This, Dicey asserted, was the meaning of the rule of law, a concept unknown to Napoleonic systems, which privileged and insulated public administration, but which the English judges had made the basis of our constitution. Dicey’s axiom, however, that officials and citizens alike may not act without legal justification, is ...”

“... central character, Parker Jagoda (terrific name), is a 37-year old architect-turned-developer who, unknown to his photographer’s-model wife Barbara, has been placing ads in the lonely hearts columns of the local papers. The book begins with Parker on the way to one of the ensuing dates. It rapidly becomes evident that all isn’t well with him: he has a ...”

“... to him, his terror ‘at the possibility of some packet’s being lost, given away, let lie in unknown hands for a time, and then turning up to bother one’s survivors and make them ashamed of one’.The reference here is to Eliza Flower, to whom Browning was romantically attached in his boyhood; and, as he wrote to R.H. Horne: one day Eliza told me to ...”

“... Boule, spent six months on rivers and canals throughout France.On his return to Paris he began, unknown to Tigy, an affair with Boule which was to last longer than any other in his life. A new, larger boat, the Ostrogoth, was commissioned from a builder in Fécamp; on it the trio spent the next three years and on it, while moored in Delfzijl, in Holland, in ...”

“... to investigate the sexual revolution both collectively, through the testimony of these numerous unknown foot-soldiers, and individually, for their champion was a famously determined self-publicist and legitimator of her own desires. Disappointingly, however, we are once again given little more than the story of Stopes’s romantic, litigious and literary ...”

“... and electromagnetic forces. The problem is that the explanation of this asymmetry is currently unknown, and constitutes one of the main theoretical gaps (the other being how to incorporate gravity into the overall picture) which a Final Theory of Nature is designed to bridge. Weinberg suggests what such a theory might be like, and ventures to say what it ...”

“... and all the rest of the IPC. In the face of a threat like that, the more speculative menace of an unknown young Australian pip-squeak looked a good deal less immediate. So the deal was done on 26 September 1969, for a giveaway price of under £1 million – about one pound for each of the Sun’s dwindling number of readers. The Cudlipp Sun finally set on ...”

“... this smooth and wealthy world, and has something of the effect of Daniel Drouin’s wisecrack. An unknown criminal has been dismantling grand pianos in bankers’ houses, skillfully taking the instruments apart and stacking the pieces against a wall or in a fireplace. The malefactor is never caught, and his motives can only be guessed at. Has he ...”

“... in the London Review of Books. An authentic report has been brought back from somewhere exotic and unknown, the pavements of this city. And as the gadarene and glitz-fed sprint of enterprise capital attempts to corral any citizens with loose change in their pockets into Fort Apache-style ex-industrial ruins, such as the Bow Quarter, so life outside, street ...”

“... is not easy to assess) and to move into an uncertain future in a land full of promise but full of unknown hazards, too. The wonder of this levée en masse, which has no parallel in history, is its lack of that ghastly ‘Germanic’ earnestness which in the past has so often spilled over into aggressiveness, fanaticism and violence; and its rehabilitation of ...”

“... are delivered – if they are delivered – Rostock will look like Jarrow in 1932. An even greater unknown is the state of human capital. There is a notion, in some parts of the West, that all you have to do is to dangle incentives in front of people and they will jump. Some will. Some East Germans have done so and are doing so, by moving West or ...”

“... of painting with the broadest brush.’ One does not have to look far for such a statesman. The unknown who became prime minister in 1923, ‘a new man, a nobody of nobodies, created an era of good feeling, a lurch towards the practical centre that was to calm, steady and unify the nation through two decades’; Stanley Baldwin was ‘the greatest healer ...”

“... people ... the men often seemed to me bitter and with-drawn.’ Kroeber mused that ‘for some unknown reason, the culture had simply gone hypochondriac.’ What Kroeber never mentioned was that between 1848, the start of the gold rush, and 1910, the Yurok population in that region was reduced from about two and a half thousand individuals to ...”

“... are happier if they are labelled ‘meaningless questions’; ufologists explain every unknown in terms of ‘alien visitors’. Sealing off unproductive lines of reasoning with labels or slogans may be a sensible trick to prevent the mind wasting precious computational time. Mind is a unity, and cosmos is a unity. Two unities is one too many. It ...”