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“... attempts to strike it becomes nothing more than a piece of rope.’ The fact that rattlesnakes are unknown in Africa is just another embarrassing oversight (like the fact that the enslaved women manage to keep their jewelry, along with their honour) in a film that is hardly less fantastical than Roots, but merely exploits a greater technical proficiency to ...”

“... was particularly struck by the dominance of works made by artists who were hitherto quite unknown to me. Pavel Braila, for instance, exhibited a film, shot on digital video and then transferred to 16mm, Shoes for Europe, which documents the complicated passage of a train from Moldova, Braila’s country of origin, to Romania and the West, via the ...”

“... Crippen’s young and fertile wife was persuaded that she required this form of intervention is unknown,’ Rubenhold writes. Crippen later claimed that Cora suffered from a prolapsed uterus and had painful periods, but Cora’s sister protested that she’d never said anything about this.‘You know how I love babies,’ Cora wrote to her sister in ...”

“... that the embassy had been taken over by gunmen, though their identities and demands were still unknown. I guessed that they must have some connection with the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, which was what the newly created government of the Islamic Republic of Iran also believed. These were the first uncertain moments of the six-day siege. Since ...”

“... know where his friend had been taken, whether to the mines or the fields – Duck’s fate was unknown, as is the case for so many people whose stories can never be told.It’s a poignant tale, a seemingly fitting peroration to Grann’s argument about the inequities and silences of history. Before this, we’re told, Duck, Morris and their two ...”

“... on less savoury work in the private sector.At the start of the novel, she’s been sent by an unknown party to spy on the Moulinards, who are suspected of torching several excavators, worth hundreds of thousands of euros, as a protest against a government scheme to construct several ‘megabasins’: enormous reservoirs meant to mitigate the effects of ...”

“... of them were soon translated into French, but in the Anglophone literary world she has remained unknown and untranslated until now. The Unforgivable contains the two essay collections published in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). In addition, there are brief essays on Williams, Donne, Chekhov and Borges, some ...”

“... on ideas of mutuality, substitution and a common littoral identity’, as people buried their unknown comrades in coastal society to establish a ‘translocal community of grief’. In all these ways, Kosmin argues, the Hellenistic coastline became a ‘hyperobject’, like evolution or global warming today: ‘massively distributed entities relative to ...”

“... Brahic calls a ‘revolutionary concept’ in science is either poorly understood or completely unknown, something his book seeks to correct.After the discovery of prions, many biochemists fundamentally rethought their ideas about protein behaviour. Their focus shifted from establishing what particular disorder a prion might cause to understanding what the ...”

“... terms of authors I admire, like Conrad. I thought of Heart of Darkness, a tale, a journey into an unknown destination, to an unknown ending. He also said in an interview that ‘the whole thing could be a paradigm for what is happening’ in Northern Ireland. Originally, I’d have said that wasn’t true, but maybe ...”

“... retrospective marvelling, as he sets off to America at the end of Christopher and His Kind, at the unknown future and the unknown life partner who await him: ‘He will be near you for many years without your meeting. But it would be no good if you did meet him now. At present, he is only four years old.’ Forster seems ...”

“... rows upon rows of mostly identified bodies in military cemeteries, and to the poignancy of an ‘unknown’ soldier who serves as a synecdoche for those whose names and bodies are forever disjoined, that we forget that the overwhelming majority of men who died in war between, roughly speaking, Marathon in 490 BCE and 1861 are buried anonymously. In the ...”

“... was sceptical. He found it ‘nearly impossible that so important an object would have remained unknown and hidden’ for almost seventy years. Tawadros was said to have sold the stele just a decade after Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, and just eight years after he revealed the gold funerary mask. These were global events. Audiences in both ...”

“... with patience and sympathy’. However, she says, the belief has also encouraged fears of an unknown evil among child protection workers ... and seems to generate an obsessional desire to find out what happened ... which added to their own stress and obscured the children’s needs ... People are reluctant to accept that parents, even those classed as ...”

“... the cadet corps, which had been thinned down during the fracas and its deadly aftermath, when an unknown number were shot after being told they could walk free from a police station in Rabat.The next step, for Hassan and Oufkir, was to implicate the UNFP in the failed putsch and present the various sources of opposition as a single, homogeneous threat to the ...”