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“... the manipulative pseudo-sincerity of the television talk-show and the jargon of Alcoholics Anonymous into the literary memoir. In a review in the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani warned of ‘an approach that will be familiar to anyone who watches Oprah or Geraldo, an approach that is bound to become more popular in book-stores as the recovery movement ...”

“... sacred song. His ‘Hymn’ has pride of place in anthologies of Old English poetry. For a while, anonymous biblical poems in Old English were ascribed to him too. Provided with the name of a vernacular poet – so rare in the early medieval period – scholars couldn’t resist embellishing Caedmon’s accomplishments.Bede described the abbess’s career ...”

“... society – fishermen, actors, courtesans and samurai – mixing it. Following no useful calling, anonymous in their nakedness, lovers clutch each other. We might be watching ourselves, dizzy men and women without designations ... We jostle in the dark for a better view. The Interviewer ‘You will have noticed the dissonance: my common surname and ...”

“... of the individual troll were secondary; the primary goal is to sustain the pleasure of the anonymous collective. For most​ organised trolls, having an explicit political affiliation or moral cause goes against the basic principle that commitment to anything other than the lulz is suspect. However, for ‘gendertrolls’, a term coined by Karla ...”

“... of cave paintings, rock paintings, petroglyphs, or any parietal art? Are we thinking about anonymous painters from the distant past, or about a monument to them built by 20th-century Europeans? The images were made during a span of roughly 32,000 years and can be found all over the world. It is impossible to know whether they are nearer to art or ...”

“... volume, Redondi does not confess). The letter, which is printed at the end of Galileo: Heretic, is anonymous. It is effectively a denunciation of Galileo as a heretic. It notes that Galileo ‘openly declares himself a follower of the school of Democritus and Epicurus’ – and therefore, a believer in atoms – and goes on to point out the incompatibility ...”

“... storytelling is that the readers or listeners are not allowed omniscience. If a character is anonymous in the story, the audience is kept in the dark as much as the people he meets. We have no knowledge of Perceval’s name, or Enide’s, or Lancelot’s, until they are publicly revealed. Alternative names are adopted by the storyteller as ...”

“... This was for me the real thing, devoid of affectation and mannerism. The style was almost anonymous and therefore classical, as I saw it then, and still today see it. It may be hard for some readers now to imagine the impression of simple purity the Kees style could engender. The first of Justice’s poems it engendered turned out to be uncannily ...”

“... of a particular royal house, so the only way for the two to unite was under the banner of the ‘anonymous kingdom of the Republic’. In other words, the only way to be a royalist in general is to be a republican. The same is true of religion. One cannot be religious in general: one can only believe in a particular god, or gods, to the detriment of ...”

“... Had the papers only thought to look in Camilla’s direction, they might have witnessed what one anonymous butler described seeing in her grandmother’s garden – Charles and Camilla doing ‘what Lady Chatterley enjoyed best’. Andrew did not object to the royal liaison: it kept the heat off his own affairs. Diana, however, was different: a virgin bride ...”

“... be able to enter into another: more specifically, to live in what seems in many ways an ethnically anonymous, junk-food culture, and yet be able to believe – at least sometimes, at least a bit – that there is or that there was a different, richer sort of reality of which one might partake, though its categories and language are now elusive or available ...”

“... Who, for instance, you’re made to wonder at this point in Ghosts, is actually asking? Some anonymous narrator? The author? The novel’s own enigmatic ‘evil man’, the one who does so much of its telling and, it turns out, has a lot morally to answer for? You never know. It’s hard to tell; it’s always hard to tell with this author. It’s at the ...”

“... was excellent training for the Patrologiae. Migne’s steam-powered press was the ‘impartial’, anonymous voice of Truth, expressing its individuality only in the unimpeachably practical: La Voix de la vérité offered advice on all things ecclesiastical, from church maintenance to coping with bullying bishops. Under the Second Empire, this impartiality was ...”

“... a handful of lyrics by Chaucer, Richard Rolle, and some less familiar names, it includes fifty anonymous poems of immense variety. Genres are defined loosely, if at all, and even such basic categories as ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ prove to be thoroughly intertwined. In place of the troubadours’ art of elegant variation, these English poets more often ...”

“... obediently did on 4 November. According to tradition, the scheme had already been blown by a murky anonymous letter received ten days before by a more or less Catholic peer, Lord Monteagle, another friend of Catesby’s and a brother-in-law of Tresham. It warned him not to go to the opening of Parliament. Monteagle passed the letter on to the ...”