Sentence examples for kept nameless from inspiring English sources

Similar efforts at Everyman universality are found in fairy tales, whose characters are often kept nameless or given purely descriptive labels (Sleeping Beauty, say, or the Little Mermaid), "thus facilitating projections and identifications," as Bruno Bettelheim put it.

He was more interesting to me than Rick Linville, who had a name and a shape, but there was always the implicit subject of how the Friday evenings ended, what they said and did together, in English and Portuguese, which I needed to keep nameless and shapeless, and then there was her silence concerning the man himself, and maybe it wasn't even a man.

Welcome to Indonesia's deadliest wave a secret spot we've been asked to keep nameless that's off an island in a remote part of Sumatra.

Understanding that it would be difficult to create a film in which the protagonist is never referred to by name, Mechner named him Dastan ("it was easy to keep him nameless in the game because the person playing could project themselves on to the character but you don't do that in film," Mechner explains).

Ravel then attempts to keep The Nameless One there by force.

Being nameless, too, keeps you on your toes.

There is the tragic noblesse of the first-class passengers, people named Straus and Widener and Guggenheim; the hopeless scrabbling of the businessmen and boys traveling in second class, some kept at gunpoint from entering lifeboats that went off half-filled; and the wretched doom of those nameless victims at the bottom of the social scale.

Driver's response to the nameless, faceless thugs who keep coming at him is to build himself a red-meat ride, get behind the wheel and drive.

They are mostly garbage pickers, taxi drivers, manual labourers - the nameless, faceless people who keep a largely thankless city afloat.

The people who keep it flowing, such as the nameless hero of Jimmy Webb's song "Wichita Lineman" (1968), are still often cast as heroic, wizard-like figures.

But we do now know the color of the ribbon: Keep those suggestions coming for the remaining nameless faces.