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Here I show the out-of-the-box behaviour of an inline itemized list, and then a workaround that achieves the look I'm after. The desired look is achieved, here, by manually adding a negative space to left-align the first line of the lede. Can the alignment be made to work as desired using built in enumitem options?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[inline]{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\begin{itemize*}[label=,leftmargin=*,]
\item In this Introduction we have recalled the \textbf{necessary
  background} on sonic screwdrivers, and presented \textbf{supporting
  material} to frame our research.
\end{itemize*}

\section{Re-introduction}

\begin{itemize*}[label=,leftmargin=*,]
\item \hspace{-.5em}In this Introduction we have recalled the
  \textbf{necessary background} on sonic screwdrivers, and presented
  \textbf{supporting material} to frame our research.
\end{itemize*}
\end{document}

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Joe Corneli
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    Sorry for asking, but what is the purpose then of doing this as a list? – daleif Jan 21 '19 at 12:51
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    see the afterlabel option, setting it to afterlabel=, aka no value seems to work. I still do not understand the use case though. – daleif Jan 21 '19 at 12:55
  • I started with a bullet list, and now just want to change how it looks. I realise I could get the text to flow in the usual way if I remove the list markup, but it feels like enumitem should be able to take care of that for me. That way I can preserve the logical structure. – Joe Corneli Jan 21 '19 at 12:55
  • thanks - if you put that as an answer I am happy to accept. – Joe Corneli Jan 21 '19 at 12:56
  • Most people use \section or \subsection for this sort of thing. – John Kormylo Jan 21 '19 at 16:59

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For inline lists there are a few extra options. For example afterlabel by default inserts a non-breaking space (a same as ~) after the list label. Since there are no label here, the non breaking space is clearly visible.

Using 

afterlabel=,

sets this value to be empty, and the space goes away.

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