It was disorienting to feel so vulnerable, to have to place trust in an unseen person.
"The Virgin Suicides" distills the mournful voice of the novel's collective narrator into the unseen person of Giovanni Ribisi.
Deb Green, who saw a screener talking by headset with the unseen person at the image monitor, said she felt, "from the comments and smirks, that they were appraising each of the women going through".
A picture of Mr. Romney opposite a cover of Elite Traveler, a high-end magazine aimed at private jet travelers, is shown on the screen, followed by an unseen person counting hundred-dollar bills.
The film is full of interventions, ranging from questions hurled by an unseen person (presumably, Mr. Morris) to elaborate computer animation effects, used at one distracting moment to depict the atomic bombing of Japan.
When the front door jingled in the middle of Tony's examination, the dentist called out in his Kings County accent, "If you're selling something, turn around," and the unseen person quickly pulled the door closed.
Every time Claire Foy, aka HM the Queen, carefully places one hand over the wrist of the other, isn't it as though some unseen person has opened a window behind you?
Milgram discovered, as he later wrote in his book Obedience to Authority (1974), that adults would do almost anything when commanded by an authority, including inflicting painful electric shocks remotely on an unseen person (who, unknown to the subject, did not actually receive any such shocks).
As Cindy Sherman has amply demonstrated, the most obvious route for a photographer with these anti-vérité instincts might be the self-portrait, but in the bulk of her work Lawson appears only in relation: she is the unseen person whom all these striking-looking people are looking at.
