“Miss Millward was there, it is true, but she, of course, would be little better than a nonentity.”

“What mysterious force or invisible hand guided the embryo's journey from nonentity to individual?”

“In 1789, Robespierre was a political nonentity, and he was also a monarchist.”

“We know nothing about him, and isn't that better than knowing everything about most of the nonentities on football's centre stage?”

“That's why these two political nonentities are stuck in the political quagmire of Vietnam.”

“Their modern-day equivalents are merely bureaucratic nonentities completely remote from everyday life.”