How To Use Mere In A Sentence

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
Is there continuing jubilation, or has it simmered down a lot?
Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.

Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
Here, human or mouse embryonic stem cells, in vitro representatives of the totipotent inner cell mass blastomeres, are placed into culture.
I was merely commenting how superior the Assos jersey seemed, compared to the other jerseys in my burgeoning collection.
This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
A mere two minutes passed before Cooks was celebrating again in the end zone, this time after a 32-yard punt return.
This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
According to FDA officials, the herb stevia can be ‘adulterated’ merely by being in the presence of information that reveals its sweetening property.
You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
It contains fried tofu, mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, onion and squash all simmered in a spicy sauce and sprinkled with scallions and sesame. Bento #120: Korean stew « Were rabbits
Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing. American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings
The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
Some ensembles shimmered with metallic accents, while others popped in bubblegum pink.
Before her return from California all this would have been mere conjecture. Times, Sunday Times
And this groove isn't merely about the young and the funky. Times, Sunday Times
The birds occupy a range of wetland habitats: lakes, rivers, reedbeds, sedge fens, marsh dykes, ponds, flooded gravel pits and meres.
Galileo was attracted by the implicit contrast between physical propositions that were demonstrated and those that were merely affirmed.
Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
His brave words are merely a pose.
The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
Even two songs cut with hot producer Gavin Brown and ace keyboardist Richard Bell are merely passable.
She had on a beautiful red gown that glimmered as the light hit it.
This may be because the credulousness that goes hand in hand with little experience allows one to fall in love merely with appearances, and winter is beautiful. The Fire We Tend Against Winter
The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
Well, luckily for you, the publisher hornswoggled more out of me than this mere introduction. The Codex Continual » Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#3)
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
Cashmere comes from cashmere goats and angora fiber comes from Angora -- rabbits.
She has a competition weight of 63.5 kilos but, in order to remain light, eats a mere 2,000 calories a day when she is at peak fitness.
I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.
The watcher's eyes glim - mered in the darkness, well back in the shadows, bright and feral. Ilse Witch
Rather than a game of skill and technique, golf is turning into a mere test of power.
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
It's fair to say we got well and truly hammered last night. The Sun
Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
It is thus not a mere truism that all democratic countries stand with Norway in its adversity and suffering. Times, Sunday Times
In truth, she could not have known she had fallen into this realm as the mere awareness of self and location whether spatial or otherwise would negate the very nature of the state itself.
High over the hills towards Thirlmere I watched a golden eagle soaring in the air.
It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
They have no hope, merely a mindless shriek of hatred they believe might bring down destruction on all so they can scavage the corpses. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
Philosophy aims only at the truth, not at mere persuasion regardless of truth, which is a dubious enterprise in both its intentions and its methods.
He did not rest content with a mere strict fulfilment of the pecuniary obligations to the Church to which the Concordat had bound the State; in 1803 and 1804 it became the custom to pay stipends to canons and desservants of succursal parishes. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
Details of how the Pond of Safety Forest will be managed are still being hammered into place, but a skeletal framework is clear.
I establish, since it is clinically relevant, that you have not, in fact, had the penectomy and vaginoplasty yet, and are merely scarfing down hormones and getting all your facial hair yanked out. M.D.O.D.
After about eight months Meggy got the bullet and in October 1984 I was back in charge, this time not as mere caretaker.
And while you might think that you have all the right in the world to lead Orlath, I am not fighting merely to replace a madwoman with a fanatic.
They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir. A seasonal lament
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
Only when an influence is exerted, whether immediately or through a third party, from one upon another has society come into existence in place of a mere spatial juxtaposition or temporal contemporaneousness or succession of individuals. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Merely uncoil the roll of mesh so there are 3 feet or so between each coil.
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
merely a dull rehash of his first novel
The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
An organism is considered metameric when its body is mostly formed of serially repeated anatomical units called metameres.
He doesn't say a word, merely nodding in acknowledgement of Stephen's greeting.
The practice of theurgy, then, becomes a way for the soul to experience the presence of the divinity, instead of merely thinking or conceptualizing the godhead.
The tourists can merely hire Qualis, and the services of a hostess are optional.
_evidence_, and _mere evidence_, and a judge has no power whatever to deal with evidence. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep. Oliver Twist
Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
A rich cashmere throw, a pair of princess-worthy slippers, and some delish candles will keep her nest well feathered.
This is far from being a work of mere trainspotting; in fact, in a strange way, it catalogues the architectural, social and economic history of modern Britain.
A nice pair of jeans with a cashmere pullover sweater and a nice pair of shoes is a good look.
Apple candy, cotton wool, melon and a mere hint of liquorice.
The merest little noise makes him nervous.
But to Escondido resident Waller and others, horses are much more than mere livestock, they are members of the family.
Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky.
After mere survival, the primary activity of life is to create more life, to extend itself, to keep going, to procreate.
Wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been.
This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. The Modesty of His Lordship
Once again, he was incorporeal, a mere awareness floating in space. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.” CHASING the WHITE DOG
First, we have in the bottom from which the mere structure of an ovary is deduced, the normal dicarpellary structure, and there is in addition a tendency in excess toward a parietal placentation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Dry-clean and encase cashmere and fur in plastic bags for summer
On the other hand, it is very probable that this subcaudal extension of the fins is merely a result of the posterior extension and enlargement of these fins which has taken place in the evolution of the adaptation. Hormones and Heredity
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?
It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but khan of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.
When are Orwells sheep ever going to figure out the jingoist crap, mere words, are being used to make rubes of them? Think Progress » Minnesota Attorney General Denies Pawlenty’s Request To Challenge Constitutionality Of Health Reform
Instead, they appear to result from the mere garbling of details by careless writers.
In the following decade, I hammered federal training and make-work programs in articles for this newspaper and other publications. My Summer Road to Perdition
Being critical must be distinguished from being merely contra-suggestible.
He was no longer talking to her, merely venting his rage out loud.
Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
I would say to your readers that I am a fond cat lover and I am merely making a valid point.
This would be such a female as our already seriously humbled hero could not manhandle as mere booty.
Every time a chromosome replicates itself, its telomeres shorten in length.
The difficulties in her way merely strengthened her resolve.
No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
We must investigate what produces solecisms, and not merely adduce examples.
The mere fact, if it be a fact, that the constable reasonably thought that a breach of the peace was likely did not in my judgment justify the arrest of the bailiff.
The very idea of Chef's Theater is so risible that we cannot be sure that the whole thing isn't merely an elaborate, brilliant hoax - indeed we desperately hope it is one.
attributive: -s/-l directive: -is locative: -eBy renaming the genitive case as "attributive", we make it clearer that these endings are not just restricted to mere "possessives" or "ablatives" but rather we recognize their many other usages. Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
That, for now, is mere conjecture. Times, Sunday Times
For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes.
Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
‘We were merely prosing about old times.’
Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.
I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things. As I Please
A slight raise of the eyebrow, the merest twitch of the lip can say so much.
These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
They would have all remained mere installations though if life hadn't been suddenly instilled into them.
It is not a mere matter of citizenship; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance.
He hammered in the nail.
Part of this may be cultural — Korean variety shows certainly display a pleasantly anything-goes aesthetic — but my sense is that merely singing in English semiotically signals a certain kind of Muzak quality within a dramatic context. Archive 2008-04-01
Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
Human nature is greedy, devious and sleazy, and most salacious tabloid stories are merely reflecting that fact.
Obivously, by the mere actions of ABC and the other lib media, the censorship of anything healthcare will lead to something being signed .... what they cannot prevent or censor is the draining of your paycheck through taxation ... Pelosi: There will be public option in House health care bill
It has long been thought that the grouping of telomeres is important for chromosome pairing and subsequent synapsis.
The city lights in the distance glimmered, but mostly all the houses on the street were dark.
It would be the sheerest hypocrisy for these same Democrats to give President Obama a pass on such criticism, merely on the grounds that he is of their party. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Zombie Attack!
Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.
But they do not exist in some half-real realm, neither fully actual nor merely possible.
It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. A Simple Story
So my heterosexual male readers are merely invited to recall the most exotically beautiful woman they've ever seen and imagine her two or three notches better-looking.
Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period.
The use of a smaller centrifuge will merely make the operations more time - consuming.
I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled. Eothen
And so all Israel shall be saved -- To understand this great statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief, is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Many canonists hold that the subdiaconate, being of merely ecclesiastical institution, was formerly amounted one of the minor orders of the Church, and infer that before the time of Urban II (1099), Abbots could have given that order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Telomerase system is the genetic name of telomerase and telomere.
It is merely a document, which must be served within the jurisdiction under CPR part 6.5.
Ha! you may ask -- he gave his mistress a potion, for the purpose of merely seducing her, and it turned out to be poison -- a _carabin_ like yourselves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832
The useful products of the field are themselves beautiful; the sainfoin, the blue lucerne, the blood-red trifolium, the clear yellow of the mustard, give more definite colours, and all these are the merely useful, and, in that sense, the plainest of growths. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself.
Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures.
Meredith Rocket, co-owner of The Little Gym in New York, works with a child at her gym.
But why do you come down to our mere mortal plain in this weather, angel?
Your acceptance into the club will be a mere formality.
Yet art and fashion form a natural alliance that extends beyond mere money. Times, Sunday Times
Compared to the size of the vessels in the enemy armada, these battleships were mere toys.
built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc. Smith's Bible Dictionary
They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
There is no sustained analysis to speak of, merely impressionistic detail woven into a narrative of tedious detail and worthless prose.
It was first considered as a mere succursal chapel of Notre Dame parish.
Edinburgh has a mere half million inhabitants, the bulk of whom reside within her city boundary.
One might object that his account draws on the possibility of a merely possible world.
Meanwhile, outside the United States, the Abu Ghraib story doesn't so much ‘damage’ our reputation, as it merely cements it.
The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete the outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
You might as well ask him to tie a yellow cashmere jumper around his shoulders and tell you jokes in his third language, showing his perfect teeth. Times, Sunday Times
Kammerer, meanwhile, has spent the last several years working in weathercasting across the Philadelphia TV landscape. WRC loses president, gains weatherman
Notice that in this case we will have a violation of the doctrine of determinism, and indeed determinism might be expressed simply as the thesis that nothing ever occurs by mere hap.
The "Bath Road," for example, in parts, is as flat and well-formed a surface as one could hope to find, even in France itself, but at times it degenerates into a mere narrow, guttery alley, especially in its passage through some of the The Automobilist Abroad
This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
meretricious relationships
If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
Tranmere's reply was instant and decisive, Bishop volleying the winner from a free kick.
Elena is unique among humans, not merely because of her wings, but because of her body structure.
But he was built of loyalty and unsuspicion; and though for a mere second a fear assailed him that the old lady was about to charge Reuben with playing his daughter false, he scouted the fancy hotly. Aunt Rachel
Arrestment is not a strategy merely decided by judicatory organ, but a Nash equilibrium which involves the judicatory organ and suspect.
Her voice was cold as if she was merely reciting facts from a textbook.
He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles with footnotes and quiet exposition.
It has proved difficult to establish causal rather than merely correlative relationships between carbohydrate accumulation and cold tolerance.
I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
The significant difference is that our interpretation of the capital-output ratio includes variable capital, not merely fixed capital stock.
The Midrash says that the Third Temple has already been constructed in heaven, and merely awaits our preparations here on earth.
Nottingham Forest qualified for the final by beating Tranmere on Tuesday.
On June 9, the intrepid Curry will settle in behind the big desk of NBC's top-rated morning show, where she'll succeed Meredith Vieira as Matt Lauer's coanchor. The Biz: Ann Curry's New Today Role
Krug is ‘the gargle of the gods’, he wrote, yet again providing us mere mortals with a ‘wish I'd written that’ moment.
The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
We all get totally hammered on tiny amounts of the local rice wine, and stay up way past our bedtimes at the Hoài Café.
An absolute pristine typical Redesmere roach of old, complete with dab of orange under its chin.
A colorable claim is something that may not be legitimate but merely appears to have legitimacy.
Nevertheless, many environmentalists remain concerned that any talk of restorative grazing is merely an environmental smokescreen that lets ranchers continue to devastate the land.
Since 2008, they have been socked with staggering new bills for bank bailouts and hammered by a Great Recession brought on by the very same banks. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
The composition of terrigenous sedimentary rocks would merely reflect the compositional aggregate of their source areas.
They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
Does the rule that a legislator be present to vote make sense, or is it merely an anachronism?
If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes. Stravinsky Crashes the Party
Phoenician art, which issued, as it would seem, originally from mere troglodytism, was, from the time when it arrived at the need of ornament, essentially an art of imitation. History of Phoenicia
A mere chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?
Finally, Neville Marten, how dare you dismiss the guitar as a mere machine?
The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.
Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver. The Shagganappi
His protagonists are too full of life and way too complicated to be the mere vehicles for ruminating on the contemporary dilemmas they face.
Mere words will not fill a bushel.

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