“... it into existence? Women with infertile partners conceive with the help of sperm donors, usually anonymous: that is to say, they have a child with a man they have never set eyes on, who produces a sample of his semen in a cubicle at a clinic, by masturbating over a picture of another total stranger with her legs apart. I suppose I should say I respect their ...”

“... she knew nothing by comparison. Another described a now defunct online message board where anonymous peers (and, who knows, perhaps also faculty) would speculate about whose dicks women had sucked to get where they were. One of the men alleged to have run the board is still in the discipline. And the women? ‘It’s often your cohort that want to ...”

“... requested that I drop off their food at the door. Customers grow to love apps that make the worker anonymous.’ In this system, the invisible hand of the market can actually bring you a burrito.By producing​ such extremes of wealth, tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism, with a few powerful figures accountable to no one. Here’s Elon Musk, the ...”

“... use of disruptive rumours, disinformation, framing loyalists as FBI informants, sexual blackmail, anonymous phone and letter campaigns etc. It was a roaring success: in a year CP membership collapsed from 22,000 to under four thousand (and many even of them were FBI informers). But COINTELPRO was also entirely illegal and represented a new police intrusion ...”

“... like the conceit of someone who takes themselves for God with a laptop: at the same time utterly anonymous and loftily grandiOSe. The Eno documentary uses software – a program called Brain One – to select footage and assemble it on the fly so that a different version is shown each time it is screened. When Eno says ‘since the beginning of the 20th ...”

“... the power cut that affected the last day of the festival. Later, a group of anarchists posted an anonymous statement on the website Indymedia announcing that they had sabotaged the region’s main electrical supply. The reasons for their action included Cannes’s participation in ‘culture-washing’; the horror of hosting a glamorous film festival on the ...”

“... generations. In the first place, assessment for the patrimonial tax would unleash a tidal wave of anonymous denunciations, which would no doubt improve the country’s mental health by venting all manner of long-festering animosities: Rossi has a villa under his wife’s sister’s maid’s name; Bianchi keeps gold in his mattress; Neri has money in a Jersey ...”

“... and then – to compound the blunder – actually publishing his outpourings of sentiment in an anonymous mémoire à clef whose lock was so easy to pick he might as well have used real names. For his enemies in the combative world of the political magazines, the Liber Amoris was a godsend. The Literary Register called it ‘Silly Billy’s ...”

“... of intent. From now on he would make his own way in the world. His first published work, an anonymous satirical parody entitled A Vindication of Natural Society, appeared in May 1756. It was well received and its publisher Robert Dodsley offered 20 guineas for the copyright of the Philosophical Enquiry plus a further ten if it reached a third ...”

“... was serious. It might have been deadly if it had been differently circumstanced – as an anonymous wine-tasting, say, with a bottle of Zak introducted among the respectable beverages. But perhaps less fun. While one may criticise the format of the Zak affair, the position Hans adopted with regard to this particular and modish eruption of non-music ...”

“... Old bully that he is, Michael Heseltine has grabbed the crown of martyrdom from these still anonymous officials and emerges from the office of the Deputy Prime Minister from time to time to masquerade as a victim. The legacy of Scott is nowhere more evident than in the public reaction to the BSE crisis, a scandal that so dreadfully exposes the ...”

“... later in an interview, his face washed back to its usual pink pain, about seeing that crowd of anonymous thousands on a hill with their lighters all flickering. ‘It wasn’t a human feeling.’‘What are you doing?’ her husband asked softly, tentatively, repeating his question until she shifted her blank gaze up to him. What was she doing? Couldn’t ...”

“... there is scarcely a smile, not to mention a joke, the whole flight smooth, crowded and utterly anonymous. The British Council reading is packed, with two hours of radio and TV interviews beforehand. All the interviewers are well-informed, with sitting in on the proceedings a simultaneous translator, Olga Fernando. She’s astonishingly clever, translating ...”

“... I cannot place where they come from, seem to me not unpleasant … he might be very good. The anonymous author of “Chant” I would, myself, take to be a far older boy with a taste for Scotch.’The first time I met Karl, at the London Review of Books office in Tavistock Square, it was more than forty years on and he asked me how old I ...”

“... set up a gmail account for people in liberated towns in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions to write anonymous reports on fellow citizens who might have aided the rebels. And it was doing its best to scare people. A professor at Kharkiv University showed me an order from the Ministry of Education demanding that all senior university officials take part in ...”