Sentence examples for a mere historical from inspiring English sources

The question is more than a mere historical footnote.

The fetus has been demoted to a mere historical oddity.

But its significance is deeper and wider than that of being a mere historical milestone.

But the era of urban anonymity already looks like a mere historical interlude.

Is the confluence of these two movements a mere historical accident?

But like many early silent films, it is more than a mere historical curiosity.

Telemann's take on the Orpheus myth is no mere historical curiosity, but a bold, affecting and fanciful opera.

This wasn't a transitional work for him, or a piece that heralded his maturity – all that's mere historical hindsight.

His black humour raises this superior poteen-boiler above mere historical adaptation.

But just as Austen's novels today are often dramatized into mere historical romance, so Cranko's "Onegin" turns Pushkin into pulp historical fiction.

Controversy surrounded the book's receipt of the Booker Prize for fiction; detractors argued that the work was mere historical reporting.