Sentence examples for In mere words from inspiring English sources

When a senile grandmother tells the story of a famous laughing contest in "Bailegangaire," her own giggles, grunts and shouts become the play's musical vocabulary, so that the old woman expresses herself with a subtlety that would be unattainable in mere words or even body language.

But such cuteness can't be fully captured in mere words.

Art tells stories that can't be conveyed in mere words.

When described in mere words, "Embrace of the Serpent" may sound similarly intolerant and didactic.

It's hard to sum up the collective impact of Alexander McQueen in mere words.

(One of the actors, Tom Edden, who plays a waiter suffering from some kind of stroke, struggles up and down stairs with a big bowl of soup. One cannot do justice in mere words).

What Friedenberg includes in two mere words, and what Nichols ignores, is Richard's recognition that Mildred might be unhappy and might blame him.

In ways that mere words never could, numbers come to connote the traits of the men who attained them, from virtuosity (.406, Ted Williams's 1941 batting average) to consistency (56, Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak) to suffocating dominance (1.12, Bob Gibson's 1968 earned run average).

In both cases, mere words fall short.

In 2014, Smith, after subjecting the school newspaper to two years worth of unjustified censorship and prior review, suddenly and without explicit reason removed the beloved advisor of the school paper, a teacher to whom I owe my place at the University of Michigan and who inspired me in ways that mere words can never express.

If these reforms are going to work, they cannot be mere words in a rule book.