“... chance of their informing on one another. The move away from bands of local vigilante groups to anonymous, spread-out terror cells marked a major shift in the white power movement – reflecting an understanding that it was no longer operating merely in local contexts. Beam himself, Belew stresses, was an early and ardent adopter of the internet, making use ...”

“... equivalents for some hard Greek words, which are followed by advice for curing sick cows. The anonymous compiler of this manuscript may have come home from a hard day at the cockpit to read how Homer’s fighting cocks kept themselves at the peak of fitness by eating ‘flesh of high hornd beeues, and drinking cups full crownd’, or about other ...”

“... up under the glare of professorial scrutiny. They would not tolerate being herded together in anonymous general propositions. The only way such truths would make themselves known was through what Kierkegaard called ‘indirect communication’: the kind of oblique, improvised remarks by which one person may on occasion bring light into the life of ...”

“... except that it was depicted (like many locations in Houllebecq’s novels) as a torrid den of anonymous sex. Yves Donnars was keen that his business should avoid an unearned reputation for sexualité de groupe, so he took Houellebecq to court. The author reluctantly changed the name in later editions. Fiction often seems like a form of revenge on the ...”

“... with you throwing up clams at the rest stops, and that girl in her department wrote a really mean anonymous review afterwards that talked about your insanely red eyes.’ Ah. This was in the days of alt-lit, in the days when we were full of what the writer Gert Hofmann called ‘book courage’, and people got paid in copies and were glad, and they ...”

“... and other magazines. ‘She cares too much about money, I’m afraid’ was one of the bitchy, anonymous comments about her in a 1989 article on Australian fiction in the New York Times. ‘She only writes about her own life’ was another. It took Garner a long time to meet the accusation that Monkey Grip had been cobbled together from her diaries with ...”

“... twenty people who have known Marshall at one time or another. Almost all of them asked to remain anonymous. Some described him as gentle and considerate, a committed Christian and classical liberal spurred into action by dismay at what he sees as the excesses of ‘wokery’. Others struggled to reconcile the Marshall they knew with the man who has shared ...”

“... for more than two decades. Mariana had tracked him down to his workplace in 2000 through an anonymous tip (as the Abuelas’ cause became widely known, they received many tips about babies popping up after non-existent pregnancies, neighbourhood or family rumours etc). Guillermo agreed to a DNA test but took the news hard, feeling loyalty to the woman ...”

“... the patronage of King Alfred of Wessex in the ninth century termed ‘Christendom’. This now anonymous scholar had translated a four-century-old world history written in Latin by the Roman Christian writer Orosius. His audience of Anglo-Saxons were determined to unite themselves to the newly named society. The Catholic Church had gained official imperial ...”

“... were perhaps the most prestigious literary essays being published at the time and yet they were anonymous. FW: No. I’m not for anonymity, but I didn’t mind myself. Having given up the stories, I slid happily into this other thing of being a literary journalist. Then in 1953 I made a resolution that I must get a job that year. So I did get a job, with a ...”

“... who, like John Ashbery, are without this kind of substance, living syntactically among shadows, anonymous and generalised feelings and beings, subway sensations. Such a poetry is as original as Lowell’s and expresses the common lot as effectively as his can, though from a different premise and by a different method. Lowell, like Larkin, is unique and his ...”

“... food and humble utensils and indeed plain (although never poor) people, including servants. One anonymous critic, quoted by Michel, observed that ‘there is no woman of the third estate’ who would not acknowledge the truth of Chardin’s paintings. But this is just what was said of the ordinary folk in comedies that were nevertheless chiefly written for ...”

“... aspect – e.g. sex appeal – of one of the people present, and someone then reads out the anonymous comments). Poor Emily Coleman was found going through the wastepaper basket one night after everyone had gone to bed, trying to work out who had written what about her. White – who cared greatly about her blonde, pink and sometimes overweight ...”

“... this editor says, that he was forced to have his letters directed to him under another name. An anonymous poet called him ‘this Islands watchful Centinel’, and his vigilant patriotic shade can be glimpsed behind these lines of Larkin’s celebrating Hull, that remote city beloved of many poets, which stands like a lonely beacon on the North ...”