“... In the film’s opening scene and twice more afterwards, the images made by his camera and by the anonymous videomaker’s are one and the same; every time Haneke returns to a stationary view of the house from the street we feel as if we are spying through a surveillance camera. Spying on what? The view from the street is perfectly public: it sees nothing ...”

“... rule. For sheer exhilaration, there is little in Jerusalem to equal the Dome of the Rock, whose anonymous Christian architect distilled centuries of Roman and Byzantine meditation on mathematical proportion and turned it into a cool assertion that Islam had rediscovered all that was best in Judaism and Christianity, but now had winnowed out the ...”

“... Times columnist David Brooks, recently blasted the CIA’s ‘bloodless compilations of data by anonymous technicians’ and praised those analysts who make ‘novelistic judgments’ informed by ‘history, literature, philosophy and theology’. Rumsfeld’s war on the rule-bound culture and risk aversion of the military reveals a deep antipathy to law ...”

“... he wrote with a colleague in February 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq. The piece quoted anonymous sources questioning White House estimates of Iraq’s WMD and thus Bush’s reason for going to war. ‘In light of subsequent events,’ Woodward says, ‘I should have pushed for a front-page story, even on the eve of war’: it’s as if this article ...”

“... it comes to the man: ‘I tried to think of Wieder. I tried to imagine him alone in his flat, an anonymous dwelling, as I pictured it, on the fourth floor of an empty eight-floor building, watching television or sitting in an armchair, drinking, as Romero’s shadow glided steadily towards him. I tried to imagine Carlos Wieder, but I couldn’t.’ The ...”

“... camps, as did her parents. The Bruders were ‘the sort of people who leave few traces. Virtually anonymous. Inseparable from those Paris streets, those suburban landscapes where, by chance, I discovered that they had lived … And such topographical precision contrasts with what we shall never know about their life – this blank, this mute block of the ...”

“... is to say why Gulliver’s Travels features on English Literature syllabuses and, say, the anonymous 1766 moral and political treatise The New Economy of Human Life (‘Part I. Of the Imperfections and Folly of Man Considered as a Relative and Social Being’) usually doesn’t. What distinguishes 18th-century satire in general and Swift’s satire in ...”

“... as deer. ‘Of all the chases, the hare makes the greatest pastime and pleasure,’ wrote the anonymous 18th-century author of The Huntsman. According to Gaston Phoebus’s 14th-century Livre de chasse, the hare is ‘king of all venery’. Turner drew and painted several hare chases apart from Rain, Steam and Speed. In one of them, a hare runs over the ...”

“... by the former British MI6 intelligence agent Christopher Steele, based on hearsay purchased from anonymous Russian sources. Amid prostitutes and golden showers, a story emerged: the Russian government had been blackmailing and bribing Donald Trump for years, on the assumption that he would become president some day and serve the Kremlin’s interests. In ...”

“... suspect reasons – including, perhaps, some of the men driven to vent their despair on anonymous forums – but the moment their unhappiness is transmuted into a rage at the women ‘denying’ them sex, rather than at the systems that shape desire (their own and others’), they have crossed a line into something morally ugly and confused. In her ...”

“... Navy lieutenants John Rochfort and John Greaves. Waldstreicher attributes to her a very different anonymous poem, ‘Thoughts on Tyranny’, which considers British history up to the time of Charles I. Like most Bostonians, Wheatley was displaced by the War of Independence, leaving the city to stay with friends in Providence. She addressed a tribute to George ...”

“... describes him as ‘award-winning writer on The Wire’ – and might have difficulty remaining anonymous while gathering material, but there’s no lack of precedent for that. Truman Capote, strange and fluting, nevertheless persuaded dazed Midwesterners to talk, and Wolfe himself was hardly inconspicuous, languidly prowling Manhattan in his pale suit. In ...”

“... creaking, rustling, buzzing, crackling, scraping’. The city itself, fast-moving, unpredictable, anonymous, was a crucible of futurity. A piece Mondrian wrote describing the sounds of Paris in 1920 (reportedly, it gave the editor of De Nieuwe Amsterdammer ‘bad dreams’) reads like Joyce, if Joyce had been mashed into one of Russolo’s noise ...”

“... linguist at the University of Washington, and five co-authors, some of whom had to remain anonymous, wrote what has become the most famous critique of LLMs. They argued that LLMs don’t really understand language. Instead, they wrote, an LLM is a ‘stochastic parrot … haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in ...”

“... every one of its staff and pupils deserve? The Trojan Horse​ scandal began late in 2013 when an anonymous letter was sent to the leader of Birmingham City Council and he passed it on to the police and the DfE. Four pages were attached to the letter, purporting to be instructions sent to a ‘brother’ in Bradford on how to infiltrate the governing bodies ...”