“... who became more and more odd, pickled and antiquated, keeping up customs and manners which, unknown to them, had lost currency ‘back home’. This is a risk for all exiles but especially for Irish ones because our remembered Ireland was itself mesmerised by coercive memories. Ireland, in some reckonings a ‘victim country’, long ago developed the ...”

“... family in this notoriously Orange area? When he claims that Seamus Reilly’s name is not unknown on the Shankill, does he mean in the way that Gusty Spence, say, might strike a chord on the Falls? These are matters that could be clearer. Blight, on a smaller scale, and more enticingly envisaged, is the theme of Rachel Ingalls’s pungent quartet of ...”

“... paperwork) were sent to participate in the tests. Fifteen thousand Australian servicemen and an unknown number of New Zealanders were also involved, and Australian citizens were unknowingly put at risk. A number of people, mainly Aborigines, may have died as a direct result of the fall-out from the blasts. Margaret Thatcher has insisted that no one was used ...”

“... I’ve just heard that a London dealer has found ‘some sheets of foul papers from an otherwise unknown Webster play’. With so much hype and anger in the air, it’s easy to forget that a modicum of research lies behind the Oxford claim. Having advanced our knowledge of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by elaborating new work on manuscript miscellanies, Gary ...”

“... encountering without warning very strong and disagreeable sensations which have unpredictable and unknown effects. Those who want to be deeply disturbed by strong sensations engendered by representations of sex and violence must actively seek their satisfactions rather than rely on the film market to supply them; and this is recommended because it is wrong ...”

“... readily accepted a subordinate role. Sometimes it has been suggested that she would have remained unknown had it not been for her association with him. It has even been claimed, however paradoxical this may seem, that the works which appeared under her name had actually been written by Sartre. Beauvoir’s writings may be uneven, her autobiographical works ...”

“... which ended, after they had been drinking all night, with their breaking into and breaking up an unknown American girl’s flat in search of more drink in the morning.) After the war he took to living in the country, where he could write secure from the lures of London. The Isle of Wight might have been thought far enough: but no, back he came to London for ...”

“... is not uncertain is the political effect of imprisonment on Davitt: he was transformed from an unknown exile into a public figure. The description of his triumphal return to his native Mayo early in 1870 is deeply instructive. His first tour of the United States, where he lectured to the Irish-American audiences who came endlessly to have their prejudices ...”

“... in addition to being pornographic was also anti-clerical, a combination which was by no means unknown in France. With legal restrictions largely abolished, though in the United States there is no telling what the Moral Majority may achieve by way of restoring them, pornography is now being turned out in a quantity far greater than at any time in the ...”

“... country, the chain of vassalage came to an end before reaching the throne, multiple fealties were unknown, there were no vassal courts, and there was a distinct awareness of the unity of the society quite absent in 11th-century Europe. In Japan, there was at best ‘feudalism’. These are striking arguments, but, thus qualified, correct. The question is: do ...”

“... have never been widely appreciated: indeed, the biography under review refers to him as ‘the unknown field marshal’. The explanation is straightforward. Brooke, a modest and privacy-loving man, showed no wish to join in the post-war battle of the memoirs, even though his own role had been grossly understated in Churchill’s account; more ...”

“... simpathies, that nevertheless form the strongest links, especially of female friendship’. Unknown to the clients though known to Fanny, Mrs Cole spites on all her copulations. But there is no physical contact between the two, and Mrs Cole is, in part, a woman with a disinterested commitment to sexual licence: ‘never woman delighted more in ...”

“... to make it harder. It makes it more likely that we will drift along with our fate, and into the ...”

“... Galileo: Heretic (1983). Redondi argued, in a brilliant discussion based on a single, previously unknown document he found in the Holy Office archives, that the trial was a cover-up, designed to paper over the much more serious accusation of atomism. Some parts of Redondi’s thesis are mistaken, but the central document, along with another that emerged when ...”

“... Donald Rumsfeld, you could say, has had a remarkable career, stretching from a middle-class upbringing amid wealthier neighbours on the edge of Chicago, through Congress and high office in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including a spell as secretary of defense, a profitable excursion into business, and finally six tumultuous years heading the Pentagon under George W ...”