Sentence examples for Mere play from inspiring English sources

— the production of a mere play.

And this is not mere play, because it also contains a worldly judgment about Jews dressing as goys, kissing the gentile ass, as it were.

While aboard a ship off the coast of North Carolina, he admitted that his captaincy in the 51st seemed like "mere play" in comparison to the "position of great importance" that lay before him.

At first, it might seem a mere play on words, but the debate about the viability of the AfPak concept is more serious and deadly than a discussion of geopolitical vocabulary.

This double movement — first toward mere play, then toward real power — is in part a classic cycle in the making of modern art, reversing Marx's "first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" dictum.

It is true that voting is a part of elections, and that elections are "political". But, as this Court said in Nixon [p573] v. Herndon, supra, it is a mere "play upon words" to refer to a controversy such as this as "political" in the sense that courts have nothing to do with protecting and vindicating the right of a voter to case an effective ballot.

IN 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. insulted his fellow rappers by claiming that their tough talk was mere play-acting.

Her performances are electrifying, and the collection tins are chinking, but their leader Kuang (Wang Leehom) is impatient with mere play-acting.

Toronto FC are a team very much still fronted, and often sustained, by Giovinco, but a mere play-off place will no longer be enough to satisfy them.

Moments like these – when the mask slips, and the gears and pulleys that drive the illusion are revealed – serve to take us out of the film and into the realm of technical assessment, reminding us that it's mere play-acting.

It was restaged for the 1994 Shanghai International Shakespeare Festival despite a disagreement among the Festival's committee members as to whether this production could be included in the program since the original Hamlet was diminished to the status of a mere play-within-a-play.