Sentence examples for exactly unknown to from inspiring English sources

There are others less famous, though none exactly unknown to architectural history, such as the Ashmolean Museum's designer CR Cockerell, and HS Goodhart-Rendel, who from the 1920s to the 1950s fused gothic, classical, art deco and modernism into unexpected combinations.

A few months ago the director of the Panhandle-Plains HistoriCanyonseum in Canyon, Tex., told me in passing how his museum was frequently overrun by visiting Germans, so the curious German obsession with the Wild West — which newly arrived Americans repeatedly discover to predictable eye-rolling from Germans, for whom it's hardly news — was not exactly unknown to me.

(The notion, sometimes found at large in America, that Sarkozy is in some way un-French, rather than merely unsuccessful, is bizarre, by the way, and depends on an absurdly shallow knowledge of French history and manners; small hyper-energetic men with a taste for action are not exactly unknown in its history. Bonapartism refers not merely to a man but to a whole political inclination).

The book is not exactly unknown, but there are plenty of people surprised to learn that it is not called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" like the creaky 1971 film.

But the act of taking off some of your clothes to celebrate isn't that outlandish: it's not exactly unknown, for example, in sports.

Far less familiar to travelers than Versailles, and drawing fewer than one-seventh the number of visitors who flock to the Sun King's domain, Fontainebleau, 45 miles south of Paris, isn't exactly unknown.

But his business ideas are not exactly unknown.

Bravo, but corruption in other fields is not exactly unknown.

Such beliefs are unusual, but not exactly unknown in these parts.

It wasn't exactly unknown in Britain, but it wasn't a household name either.

Though not exactly unknown outside the US, Detroit is not at the top of most visitors' city wishlists.