These unnamed, unknown dangers come in many guises: foreigners, minorities, different religious backgrounds, big government, politicians, liberals, authority at various levels, the list goes on.
For Toibin, this coldness, this evasiveness, cripples rather than enhances notoriously ambiguous works like "The Author of 'Beltraffio,' " whose coded implications of unnamed moral dangers he finds frustrating rather than (as with many readers and critics) tantalizing.
Modern history does not permit such worries to be brushed off, regardless of whether the source of danger is seen as some dark unnamed force, or simply a deranged person driven to lash out at a Kennedy or a King, a Wallace or a Reagan.
Hennard claimed in his appeal that an unnamed psychiatrist had testified "that there would not be any danger to the public interest in putting appellant back on the ship". A spokeswoman for the hospital confirmed Thursday that Hennard had undergone treatment from July 14 to July 31 , 1989
The articles cited unnamed 'Whitehall' and 'security sources' who said Britain faced the clear-and-present danger of an al-Qaeda attack.
The manager of Jay Leno, who himself was Mr. Carson's regular substitute host, planted a story on the front page of The New York Post in February 1991, citing the fears of unnamed NBC executives that Mr. Carson was getting too old and was in danger of being supplanted by Mr. Hall.
The unnamed relative said of the unnamed customer: "If his life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him, what gives him the right to think that it's OK to just shoot someone?
An unnamed army commander told the BBC that the government's positions were in imminent danger of falling.
His holiday carried on without event, but out of that potential danger the brothers have spun a ludicrous yarn: a boggle-eyed panic attack set in an unnamed east Asian country with locals that are mystical or hysterical or both.
