By contrast, the migrants are practically a faceless, nameless mass.
"About the first, one can do nothing, but it is through deeds that one makes oneself a man, a creature distinct from the nameless mass of jawbones".
The figure's anonymity itself would be a reproach: just another human being among the nameless mass, static, frozen, as stuck to Europe's conscience as it is to this wall.
When I hear them sung on a scratchy recording of a nameless mass meeting near Greenwood, Mississippi, the hairs rise on my forearms.
During the war "annihilationist and exterminationalist rhetoric" was tolerated at all levels of U.S. society; according to the British embassy in Washington the Americans regarded the Japanese as "a nameless mass of vermin".
To remind yourself, in the great wisdom of Claude Levi-Stheuss, thumansans of the past were not simply nameless, faceless masses fundamentally different from ourselves.
I love these nameless people very much.
Those "they" are nameless people on the internet, he says.
It was a time "when America was in great danger of vanishing into a nameless, faceless mass," as Akiva Goldsman, a writer of "I, Robot," pointed out.
We may be able to ignore a nameless, faceless mass of threatened creatures, but fill in their personalities and back stories, and it becomes harder to look the other way as their habitats disappear or they are hunted to extinction.
