“... under test can thus always be accommodated by assuming an equipment malfunction or by assuming an unknown factor in the experimental environment; in other words, it can be treated as an anomaly rather than a refutation. And this is not merely a logical point; every successful scientific theory has co-existed with a certain number of anomalous test ...”

“... the capital. Twelve years on, the death toll is somewhere in the region of thirty thousand, with unknown numbers of disappeared and injured. Today, Sendero controls much of the countryside – including the strategically important central highlands – and has reached the slums of the capital. Sendero is the creation of Abimael Guzman, a former professor of ...”

“... the one on the screen, Gary Oldman in extravagant armour, is the beleaguered West rather than the unknown East; he stand, so to speak, at our end of Jonathan Harker’s bridge. His very sacrilege doesn’t make sense in any other world, and we can scarcely disavow him. Bela Lugosi in Tod Browning’s version was human enough – there is an unforgettable ...”

“... moment by the intervention of Burke, who set himself to sponsor the work of the impoverished and unknown author. Burke’s support led to the support of others, and climaxed in the publication of his excellent work The Village (1783), which Johnson himself condescended to praise. Crabbe’s success led to his ordination and to the support of the powerful ...”

“... characters in the story are determined by the presence of a letter, a signifier whose contents are unknown. Lacan repeatedly emphasises the extent to which we are dominated by the presence of such signifiers. This is a way of thinking that has no room for notions of ‘objective reality’ or ‘autonomous ego’. At the heart of the subject there isn’t ...”

“... and self-questioning. Like so many others he died and disappeared, his work now virtually unknown except to a few fellow bibliophiles: had he lived, he would probably have disappeared in any case into middle-aged obscurity, the state of resignation which, as he found of war, becomes existence for most people. Few if any of these ‘lost ...”

“... and repression, has disabled Paul’s car. Paul arrives too late, finds his grief baffled by an ‘unknown smile’ on Agnes’ dead face: ‘it was meant for someone he did not know and it said something he did not understand.’ It was meant for no one. Agnes had not wanted anyone to see her dying, or to die into anyone’s world. She had longed for a realm ...”

“... deal of his thousand words describing, without giving away too much about, the plot of a novel unknown to his audience. If the resulting articles do not always reprint well, a similar unevenness is to be found in the political pieces, some of which seem to have been included merely to remind us of their author’s radical credentials. Such tired writing as ...”

“... mean ‘a system composed of hundreds of thousands of equations, with hundreds of thousands of unknown quantities, the underlying assumption being always that the latest data are used.’ And Hayek had himself been too sanguine. It’s said that by the early Eighties, Soviet planners were having to cope with 10,000,000,000,000 bits of often false ...”

“... enjoyment from reading these volumes. I never pick them up without finding some previously unknown passage or some striking conjunction of ideas. The most familiar figures are placed in new frames, Seamus Heaney’s introduction to Yeats sets up a dialogue between the two most widely read Irish poets. Heaney situates Yeats in relation to Moore, Mangan ...”

“... that are extant, the miles of Congressional documents, the personal correspondence as yet unknown, radio broadcasts that have been preserved and diaries and journals as yet undiscovered. The use of carefully selected works of fiction, joined to biographies and journals and diaries, is a shorthand form of work otherwise neglected or reluctantly ...”

“... postpones the moment of the promised second volume of Sexual Personae; having started as an unknown underdog, Paglia must now live up to the vast expectations created by her own huge publicity machine. No wonder she is afraid to debate with her peers, nervous about her image, and given to cancelling her ...”

“... much more about Elizabeth Daryush, née Bridges, the poet’s elder daughter. Her poetry is not unknown; on the contrary Roy Fuller devoted an entire Oxford Lecture to it. But in this connection – she and her father worked together on metre – more could have been said perhaps. For one thing her syllabic verse is much better than his. All his devotion to ...”

“... novel Mr Fortune’s Maggot catches the religious tone. Mr Fortune is a missionary who goes to an unknown island with the object of bringing Christianity to the hitherto happy natives. He makes only one convert, a boy with whom he falls in love. Having built an altar and ecstatically celebrated the Eucharist, he finally comes to and finds the naked boy ...”

“... a spot of fine living in Lady Gregory’s Coole Park, he snatches time to drop gracious notes to unknown authors who have sent him their work, usually just when his eyesight is playing him up. The latter part of the volume records his trip to the United States, where like his compatriot Oscar Wilde before him he swapped his poetic trinkets for the ...”