“... contrast, movies, like Shakespeare’s plays and Greek tragedies, are always going somewhere unknown and taking us with them.’ These are dramatic, rather than theatrical. Rembrandt and Goya are dramatic; classic art is theatrical. The Vermeer and de Hooch interior, even Goya’s Disasters of War are scenes we have come upon: they are calm or terrible ...”

“... sort of assumptions that Hunt does, and her initial essai, in the French sense of a venture into unknown territory, is to be applauded. The Family Romance of the French Revolution has provided one possible reading of a collective French revolutionary unconscious, and in doing so has opened up the psychological dimensions of the event in a way that historians ...”

“... as the sun sets an ice-bound river flowing once more through a waste of snows.’ Wield’s unknown vice – or, in police force language, ‘liability’ – confessed to Dalziel in Child’s Play (1987), is that he is ‘uncompromisingly gay’. That a scene between two policemen, in which the ugliest man in Yorkshire confesses his gayness to the ...”

“... autobiography, We Danced All Night,† she describes her part in saving the country from the ‘unknown dangers’ of the General Strike. She went, one of the Bright Young Things, on an errand from strike-breaking headquarters to a vicarage in the Harrow Road. She had never been to this part of London, nor ever seen ‘the dirty streets, the ...”

“... Calvinistic, not however in a puritanical way, drinking and card-playing being allowed – though, unknown to his parents, Louis’s beloved nurse ‘Cummy’ would give him nightmares with her terrifying talk about damnation. It so happened, however, that one day Stevenson’s father Thomas came on a document drawn up by Louis and his friends – it was the ...”

“... be. Perhaps his overriding good intentions neutrualise his temporary desire to make trouble. With unknown women, however, Arno does show signs of some desire to humiliate. They would not amount to much if they came from a man who could rape and kill with impunity, but since Nicholson Baker has based his literary career on inversions of perspective, where the ...”

“... years before when working in a minor capacity for the CIA. In May 1990, as he prepared for his unknown job, he was arrested and charged with applying for a false passport. At first he felt there was some mistake which a phone call would clear up. No one would come to his assistance, however. Jailed and bailed, he trawled through journalistic contacts to ...”

“... to sell copies of a dissident manifesto from Poland that we were pushing. It was written by an unknown political prisoner named Jacek Kuron. Only a few months later, our group had swollen from the low single figures into the dozens – a case of quantity metamorphosing into quality, as I thought at the time, and also vice versa. The Tet offensive in ...”

“... to fill a neat block (that, unlike Dickinson, he did like a tidy stanza), not that a previously unknown Morris, the weaver of typo-linguistic puns, was at work. As McGann points out, Morris laid out the poem differently in the printed version – happily breaking lines when large decorative initials required it. It seems that one was expected in both ...”

“... day, cashing a cheque in a London bank, he spied a cherubic face behind the grille, a man quite unknown to him, to whom he said: ‘What are you doing in a cage? Come out and be an actor.’ It was a call from the Sea of Galilee. The young man left his money-changing and took up a career in the theatre, not perhaps a tremendously successful one but at least ...”

“... one of America’s lesser-known ethnic identities (the town’s only landmark is the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian). This book may be a ‘No 1 American Best-Seller’, but the Wall Street Journal was surely in error in comparing its author to James Thurber. Thurber is remembered for such apocalyptic tales as ‘The night the bed fell’ and ‘The day the ...”

“... or even by a ship-wrecked crew, gave the first claims to kings and arch-pirates over an unknown tract of country. This transitory seizure sometimes obtained the venerable confirmation of an old priest at Rome ... or of a still more politic, though not less interested Privy Council at home. Sometimes indeed, if the discoverers were ...”

“... the Buddhists who had welcomed him. In doing this, he gained the sympathy of the scholars who – unknown to him – were especially concerned at this time to purify Confucianism from Buddhist influences. The Chinese literati saw Ricci in terms of another indigenous tradition, that of the moral teachers associated with private academies. They appreciated the ...”

“... round. The ethnographer is the interface, at the centre, the translator of a text in a hitherto unknown language. We need to be able to assess the ethnographer’s qualities and feelings before we can make any judgment about the reliability of his translation. This is certainly a part of Turnbull’s argument. He presents himself as an interface between our ...”

“... a peopled landscape. Metrically inventive and various, these poems are remarkably alive to ‘the unknown thing beside us’: they listen for ‘the due sound’, and, as if watching birds, register ‘the timed flight of words’. A motto for reading Middleton’s work might be: purify the source, then trust to luck. As in ‘The Prose of Walking Back to ...”