In contemporary fiction with nameless narrators, the real-world, present-day phenomenon of namelessness is not usually confronted. |
It came during the Nixon administration, a turbulent era that witnessed all the pitfalls of namelessness, including high officials flimflamming the news media. |
As they smile into the camera, they seem to be cheerfully willing their own namelessness, and become strange specters of themselves. |
Though she is a lauded professional, she can identify with the namelessness that shrouds historical women figures like Sally Hemings. |
Loveliness, like namelessness, is part of the deal, and, while nobody would be so cruel as to call her thin, I like to think that, should the modelling jobs ever dwindle, she could carve out a second career as a spring onion. |
The namelessness of the lover creates heightened particularity, at the same time giving his character the edge of the purely subjective. |