The nameless old ringmaster of the place, referred to only as Control, was privately convinced that one of his senior figures was a Soviet-run double agent or, in Circus patois, a mole.
It lets players take on the role of a character called The Nameless One who journeys through the strange city of Sigil, gradually re-discovering who he is.
Instead, they took him outside the city, handcuffed him, and shot him in the head - removing his ID so he became one of the many nameless bodies that turn up at the morgue.
In one of the rare truly visual films about writers, the director Werner Schroeter generates extravagant images to match the insights of the nameless writer he films played with ferocious precision by Isabelle Huppert and dubbed into German by the early Wim Wenders muse Lisa Kreuzer.
Such is the essence of the world, the nameless thing-in-itself, a melange of a priori truths that reside dormant within each man from the moment he is born.
At best, he had joined the group of nameless, faceless characters who had occupied the office in the last third of the 19th century.
The other is a first-person narration by a nameless interrogator who extracts the stories of enemies of the state.
Some had experimented with the enjoyment, while others, like Daphne, had experienced both and in the nameless village where they all lived, neither was taboo.
His longings first surface in a silent, hauntingly lyrical black-and-white preface that shows a bustling New York long before he was born, as well as a smiling, nameless beauty from the same era who has somehow become his most precious memory.
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Bank of America shares fell 3 percent in trading the day after Mr. Assange made his threat against a nameless bank, and while the stock has since recovered, the prospect of a Bank of America data dump from WikiLeaks remains a concern, said Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst with Credit Suisse.
By the 19th century, this vagabond culture was completely entrenched, with the whole of Sicily being ruled by these nameless, shadowy figures who became the Mafia.
What I remember feeling was an incredible temptation to ask my father a question as he delightedly described these traps, and at the same time a huge and consuming but amorphous and nameless fear that prevented my asking the question.
Nameless waterfalls tumble down from the plateau above, while the shadows of clouds dance across treeless slopes.
Yes, that's one of those big nameless guys who plays on the offensive line.
But that promise was a recipe for bankruptcy in the maze of nameless streets that is Tokyo or Osaka.
To add insult to injury, GoonSwarm then re-registered the Band of Brothers name for itself, leaving the former alliance nameless and broken.
Though the artist remains nameless, more is becoming known about his work.
George Lucas may be used to fans falling at his feet but as she tumbled to the ground our nameless colleague quickly regained both balance and composure and raced off before he was able to pass judgment on her unintentional audition for CNN's stunt-woman of the year.
In the military, the debrief process is nameless and rank-less to ensure every relevant opinion and observation is heard.
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Excerpt: Hancock held himself back, did not know Couch well, but there was something in the man, something quiet and dark and dangerous, something he had begun to see in a few of the others, had seen it now in himself, that nameless thing: Men who advanced with their troops and did not hear the muskets and stepped over their dead without looking down.
The catch: we would speak by phone, with Goldstein playing watchdog, and the mystery shopper would remain nameless and description-less -- more incognito than Brangelina on holiday.
"Suddenly it just becomes another nameless faceless high street like anywhere else in the country, " she said.
There were possibly one or two dodgy camera mixes from the Cornish director (who shall remain nameless), but it was otherwise a flawless technical achievement.
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In "The Leper's Companion, " a nameless narrator suffers a nameless loss so strong that it shocks her out of time.
Their opponents' disarray helped: instead of a single list, the opposition splintered among a vast array of largely nameless faces.
More and more, police forces are coming to call upon its services to establish the identities of people who would otherwise go to nameless graves.
The field had been awash with May sunshine when they set out after lunch, their schoolmates returning to classes while they, buoyant in their truancy, gathered nameless blue and white flowers that they later scattered carelessly near the dock.
Returning to Connaught Place, seek out a child-friendly street snack on the inner circle, where ice cream vendors and a nameless stall dishing up particularly tasty sweetcorn ply their wares.
These are not nameless faces, but real people like my girlfriend, who trembles at the prospect of coming out.
They remembered a wandering childhood of nameless places, an existence in tents and silent nighttime crossing of borders, the unceasing search for somewhere better.
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