Sentence examples for Mere sideshow from inspiring English sources

The story about the massaged talking points was a mere "sideshow," he insisted, sounding irked and confrontational.

By comparison, the roaring market of the Jazz Age, with its paltry three million investors, seems a mere sideshow.

Compared to both of those, the current psychodrama of the opposition Labour party is a mere sideshow.

But although the Tevez affair will monopolise the headlines, it was a mere sideshow to the match itself.

If that was true then Bolivia's political surrender should mean little as law is a mere sideshow to economic progress.

It was seen at first as a mere sideshow, but is now too vast and vile to be ignored.Centuries of sufferingThe south has been marginalised for centuries.

Lords reform and devolution were, by comparison, mere sideshows.

But even headline-makers such as McCartney are mere sideshows this Paris fashion week.

Thanks to what economists call strong network effects, which allow winners to take almost all, Windows relegated its rival operating systems to mere sideshows, securing fat profits for its owner.Such a lopsided result is unlikely this time.

Until this month, President Bush was touting the strength of the economy as if the prospect of more than one million Americans losing their homes and a possible recession were mere sideshows.

There are also isolated reports of problems with persistent notifications and dodgy WiFi, but these are mere sideshows to the main event.