She's such an attention seeker she'd turn up to the opening of an envelope!

His writings reflect many of the arrogances and anxieties of mid-Victorian British imperialism and anglican evangelicalism

As a final sample of this little genre, which we may call the one-line paraphrase of rien, there is this rather brutal adynaton of the surrealist Jean-Pierre Duprey: Vide ton creux, which Graham Dunstan Martin translates as pour out your vacuum.

Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.