“... 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 ...”

“... sexuality to dazzle a variety of powerful males, not as a means to her own submission. For some unknown medical reason, her childbearing career ended when she was 30, so she was never drained of her health or taken from the centre of events by repeated pregnancies as was Queen Anne herself. And she was one of those women whose energy is actually enhanced by ...”

“... and guaranteed the inviolability of the real bosses whose positions and functions are unknown to us. It wasn’t the Rashidovites or the Churbanovites who appointed shop managers to ministerial posts, but shop managers who elevated and demoted state-party bosses.’ Theirs was a world of absolute authority underpinned by terror: prosecutors who ...”

“... but all to no avail. Their author, commonly known in French as Le Corbeau, the crow, remained unknown. But it was assumed that it must be a member of the Villemin clan, since it was rent with family quarrels, hatreds, jealousies and rumours. Jean-Marie Villemin, who had been more successful in his profession than most of the family (he was foreman in a ...”

“... attractive note to strike in modern feminine dress. It was the look of the working girl, hitherto unknown to fashion. She did it while Paul Poiret was still promoting sumptuous colour and monkey fur, egrets and dramatic drapery, and other designers still aimed to clothe the elegant woman in an air of complexity, difficulty, mystery and obvious ...”

“... purpose, such notions are loath to permeate the tissues, and the wish never to have been born is unknown to our organs and our senses.’ Presumably the wish never to have been born is known, at least moodily, to our minds, or some of them, and these may rehearse the wish to the point of making it habitual; then, the temptation to suicide is felt. Up to that ...”

“... academic norms that one might today expect to find in a comparably ambitious work by an unknown lecturer in his late thirties. In retrospect, its central concern can now be seen to have formed part of a quite general but historically specific theme: the ‘entry into society’ of the old urban working class. A certain effort of historical ...”

“... programme featuring a slow-motion 50-minute ‘symphony’ by a dissident composer whose name was unknown outside his native Poland. In that twilight era before General Jaruzelski retired for ever behind his sunglasses, Krzysztof Penderecki was still the foremost musical representative of official Poland, while the strictly unofficial Lutoslawski was, for ...”

“... choice in a growing woman’s life: to leave family (as the word implies, the familiar) for the unknown and unfamiliar’. But here, Warner’s Euhemerism flattens her vision. Whatever the story of Beauty and the Beast is about, it must also be about beasts (indeed, about supernatural beasts), about our tangled relationships with animals and our love-hate ...”

“... is now said to have shaken his entourage but from which no one, apparently, could dissuade him. An unknown aide tells a story, quoted by Yergin and Gustafson, of Gorbachev arguing vigorously to a foreign business delegation that socialism was alive and curable and, when they left, continuing his argument to his aides. ‘We couldn’t figure out why he kept ...”

“... with the life of royal courts. Fisticuffs, bear-baiting, getting falling-down drunk, assaulting unknown passers-by in vicious pranks – these anti-capitalist and anti-urban modes of behaviour were to be got rid of, in the middle class and even in the working classes. The working classes were experiencing large social changes, including the breakdown of the ...”