But perhaps the man who summed up best just how big an impact Peacock had made at the Theatre of Dreams was Gareth Ellis.

BBC: Peacock struts at Old Trafford

It was summed up for Mr Baudrillard by a lone man jogging, oblivious to his surroundings, hearing only the music of his own sound-system and aware only of the statements he himself was making: health, fashion, endurance.

ECONOMIST: Jean Baudrillard

Palmer's caddy, Nathaniel "Iron Man" Avery, summed it up perfectly.

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Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.

ECONOMIST: English poets

The nonsensical structure of Welsh rugby seems summed up by the fact that Gatland has been appointed before the man who will become his boss, the yet-to-be-named Elite Performance Director.

BBC: The tests facing Gatland

One man who lost four of his brothers at war summed up the scene around him: "This was a battlefield for most of my life, " he said.

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The conflict between real modernisation and the vested interests of this bureaucracy is summed up in the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and now its most famous political prisoner.

ECONOMIST: Modernising Russia