Sentence examples for a mere display from inspiring English sources

Even something as straightforward as buying a new television — a mere display, the ads wink — spawns a salivating beast of Ethernet, HDMI and surround-sound tentacles.

The California roots of the Internet craze, with its puritanical-utopian communitarian longings, have had a softening, even frowning, effect on mere display.

To reduce that struggle to a mere erotic display is, in effect, to tighten the bonds by yet another notch.

The mere display of American backing for a plan to oust them would be enough to cow their paid liegemen.

No mere display technique, the mingling of media is a sea change in ideas about the place of photography in the history of modern art.

"Au Revoir Parapluie" is no mere display of arts-and-crafts ingenuity.

Marx knew it could not be won second-hand, by the mere display of other men's flowers.

And even in the wildest moments of the fiendishly difficult "Alborado del Gracioso" Mr. Thibaudet never indulged in mere display.

In her life and beyond, the mere display of Miss Pastrana's body served both as public spectacle and the receptacle of each generation's fears, expectations and controversies.

The majority decided actual physical contact rather than a mere threat or display of force is necessary to raise this defense.

With the aid of some mathematical finagling this picture can be reduced to a mere three dimensions, for display to a human operator.