“... projects in recent years. To refuse to accept as adequate the silences, or at best the words ‘unknown servant’, in the titles of so many European portraits that show black and brown figures alongside white, is to insist on the concrete relationships that produced such images and, in so doing, to begin to reckon with the histories of racialised injustice ...”

“... and biographies of remarkable singularity. The subjects range from the familiar to the unknown, and in date from Thecla, Paul’s disciple in the first century, to modern exemplars such as Thérèse of Lisieux, whose relics were taken into space and back, and continue to tour the world, as well as Edvige Carboni, who was declared venerable in ...”

“... not be able to discover significant new material about Lincoln – a diary, say, or previously unknown speeches and letters. Instead the biographer must take an original interpretative approach. And, against all odds, Reynolds, who teaches at the City University of New York, manages to say new and important things about Lincoln in his elegantly written ...”

“... artists. MoMA’s press release for the Stettheimer show described her as ‘an artist almost unknown to the public yet for decades famous and enthusiastically appreciated in a small circle … The artist wanted it that way.’ When the new, expanded MoMA opened in 2019, it included a small, select gallery dedicated to ‘Florine Stettheimer and ...”

“... holes along the plaque’s edges still have bits of wood adhering to them; whether cedar or not is unknown. Another mysterious find from Olympia, a wooden column base too thin to have had an architectural use, might once have supported one leg of the chest. No​ ruler exploited the prestige of Olympia more fully than King Philip of Macedon, the father of ...”

“... and Walter Hopps opened the Ferus Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, with a line-up of largely unknown young male artists they called ‘the studs’. As Chicago later put it, ‘no women artists were taken seriously. The men sat around Barney’s and talked about cars, motorcycles and their joints. I knew nothing about cars, less about motorcycles, and ...”

“... no effort to contact ‘Moffat’ (who was alive and well and living in South Africa, a fact unknown even to the defence until it was too late), the Police alleged, with absolutely no corroborative testimony, and in the face of the IRA evidence, that ‘Moffitt’ and ‘Moffat’ were the same person – and they were believed by the appeal judges. The ...”

“... novelist, translator, essayist, polemicist, political writer – was, three decades ago, almost unknown. Sartre was fascinated and fazed by the way in which the achievement of literary, or any other, success or notoriety confers a retrospective order on contingency, and, to a certain extent, we cannot help but read Sisson’s past in the light of the ...”

“... lips and a song in their hearts. They were like the knights of old, breaking new paths, facing unknown perils in their search for the Grail. The parallel is by no means inexact, for M’Clintock had given his sledges names that suggest knightly virtues – Inflexible, Hotspur, Perseverance, Resolute. Each sledge proudly carried a banner of heraldic design ...”

“... it would be Havel rather than Dubcek, Mazowiecki or Geremek instead of Rakowski, and two as yet unknown names instead of Gregor Gysi or Imre Pozsgay. Not everyone realised how dead and brittle most of these ruling Communist parties had become – not even the Polish United Workers’ Party, a mummified cadaver which finally fell into its grave earlier this ...”

“... I began to see the queer other side to my host, that evil side which gossip had spoken of as not unknown in the German army. [Emphasis mine.] On page 222 of Anthony Summers’s vastly enjoyable and revealing book, we find J. Edgar Hoover’s lovely home in Rock Creek Park being done up at taxpayers’ expense, complete with ‘hand-crafted fruit bowl’ and ...”

“... intended to kill liberal academics?’ The gay students had received envelopes with a powder of unknown origin in them.Derrida did not make of this unexpected arrival what Baudelaire’s narrator and friend had made of the beggar. It rather surprised me that he did not make more of this ‘chance’, this Jamesian donnée, this objet, this sujettrouvé. In ...”

“... the recording of the musical arrangements that he and a colleague had made for the film; and unknown to anyone apart from his wife and the technicians, he had already obtained a tape of the soundtrack, and had installed throughout his house the finest available playback equipment. His ninety guests were of like quality. After dining at the best ...”

“... of 2649 and not more than 5948. The number within this group committed by the serial murderer is unknown.’ The horrifying nature of these statistics is compounded by the case-histories they conceal. Henry Lee Lucas, subject of the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, is currently on death row in Texas. He claims to have murdered 360 people across a ...”

“... As Erica Jong writes in her foreword to Crazy Cock, In New York it was a dishonour to be an unknown writer; in Paris one could write écrivain on one’s passport and hold one’s head high. In New York it was, and still is, assumed that unless you fill up your time with appointments, you are a bum ... In the last few years we have seen a dramatic ...”