Well, of course the writers' anonymity must be observed--that's a point of honour.
The rule of anonymity has been more carefully observed in 'The Athenæum' than in most other papers.
The probable explanation is that Dickens simply did not care to interrupt his triumphant career of novelist in order to write occasional articles in a paper in which anonymity was the rule and rejection so painfully possible.
A psalm in which this anonymity of the offended god is more strongly brought out begins as follows.
A trait which appears in many of these psalms is the anonymity beneath which the offended deity is veiled.
The anonymity is the natural result of the conception of sin involved in these productions.
Suspension is a disreputable attitude for the human body, whatever way it is brought about, yet I doubt this maltreated anonymity was in better case than our hero.
Judged from any point of view, anonymity in criticism, seems to me to be absolutely indefensible.
Perhaps that is the explanation of her anonymity and her terror of retaining even a trace of her past identity.
There was a silly cry at one time for making the disuse of anonymity compulsory by law.
Some men write best when they sign what they write; they find impersonality a mystification and an incumbrance; anonymity makes them stiff, pompous, and over-magisterial.
Our practice has been signature as the standing rule, occasionally suspended in favour of anonymity when there seemed to be sufficient reason.
As far as honesty goes, signature perhaps offers as many inducements to one kind of insincerity, as anonymity offers to another kind.
What are the different recommendations of the rival systems of anonymity and signature?
Chauvelin had sworn to bring the Scarlet Pimpernel to the guillotine, and now the daring plotter, whose anonymity hitherto had been his safeguard, stood revealed through her own hand, to his most bitter, most relentless enemy.
All the most strenuous efforts on the part of my spies have failed to discover who he is; whilst the others are the hands, he is the head, who beneath this strange anonymity calmly works at the destruction of France.
My own feeling is very strongly always against the anonymity of the Press.
But, unfortunately, the Press gains so much importance (fictitious importance) from its anonymitythat it is hopeless to ask for an unwritten or a written law on this subject.
However, the brightness of this street ill-accorded with the anonymity with which their art is most safely and profitably practiced, so Larry got in without a bullet flicking at him.
To start with, he had the vain man's constant itch to tell of his exploits, his dislike for the anonymity of his cleverness unjustly ascribed to some other man.
But, though I incline to anonymity as the rule of political journalism, I quite admit that in pure literature and in the arts the signed article is often to be preferred.
But, after all, anonymity only adds the pleasure of guessing.
When Zola visited England, I remember a very striking passage in which he expressed to an interviewer his astonishment at theanonymity of the British Press.
The public are apt to suppose that anonymity is the cloak of all sorts of misdoings, and I have often heard people declare that in their opinion every leader-writer should be forced to sign his name.
But now his anonymity was to be dissipated in a friendly if rude way.
She read again the one conclusive sentence--"Your anonymity has been splendidly preserved up till now.
Your anonymity has been splendidly preserved up till now, but I feel compelled to warn you that a disclosure is imminent.
Those who urge the advantages of anonymity are either people who do not realise the special peril of our time or they are people who are profiting by it.
And anonymity ought to be not only an exception, but an accidental exception; a man ought always to be ready to say what anonymous article he had written.
As has often been said, anonymity would be all very well if one could for a moment imagine that it was established from good motives.
The anonymity which had come to be taken for granted throughout modern capitalism made it seem absurd or impossible, always highly unusual, and probably futile, to search for a separate Jewish element in any particular undertaking.
He praised the little works judiciously, and before long young Harris was prompted to doff his anonymity and stand up to be judged by himself.
It was Mr. Davis, proving, under the cloak of the Times' traditional anonymity his right to be respected as a descriptive writer of the first quality.
Anonymity has the same effect, as many a name from "Currer Bell" to "Fiona McLeod" attests.
One advantage of anonymity is that Wells can contradict himself with even more freedom than usual.
Today these values are particularly valid when applied to a class of artifacts that changed slowly and have as their prime characteristics anonymity of maker and date.
Anonymity is the chief characteristic of hand tools of the last three centuries.
This address is the one rift in the blank wall of anonymity which hides the individuality of the millions under Joffre.
It is the anonymity of the struggle that makes it all seem distant and unreal--till the telegram comes from the War Office to say that the one among the millions who is dear to you is dead or wounded.
Now they were all at liberty to discuss and attack his private life freely, thanks to the anonymity which, in spite of the want of naturalness and the corruption it entails, still prevails in the English Press.
I will conclude by asking you what I have asked another eminent critic: What is your opinion of anonymity in criticism?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anonymity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: incognito; isolation; oblivion; obscurity; privacy; retirement; seclusion
