You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

She never lived up to her reputation.

Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.

‘Tell me who you saw and what they said,’ she says, in one of her gossipy moods.