The phrase "a mere look" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the simplicity or insignificance of a glance or gaze in a particular context.
Example: "With just a mere look, she could convey her disapproval without saying a word."
Alternatives: "a simple glance" or "just a look".
Consequently, the well-defined sequence of individual tasks that constitute an operation becomes so routine that team members often don't need words to signal the start of a new stage in the procedure; a mere look is enough.
Having grammatically systematized all the many aspects that turn seeing into gawking, he showed me how he could apply those same grammatical transformations to any verb, so that one could open a door or run to the store or throw a ball with all of the same nuanced inflections of impropriety, surprise, and shock that transform a mere look into a gawk.
A mere look at house prices compared to cars over the past 10 years shows just how different a market we're talking: The average price of a residential property is 77% higher now than in 2005, whereas the price of a car is 9% lower than then.
But we can both confront the otherness of the past and immerse ourselves in it, as in these astonishing lines from The Story of Manu, describing a mere look of desire between a goddess and a man: Like the beetle that, from concentrating on the bee, becomes a bee, by taking in that human being she achieved humanity with her own body.
A mere look at the titles of the chapters reveals this concern.
Some 43percentt of people with broadband Internet connections at home turn to the Internet for news at least once a day, while only 38percentt pick up a local newspaper, and a mere 17percentt look at a national newspaper, according to a 2005 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Far from a mere salacious look at the unfortunate reptiles, the fossils provide critical clues about the environment in which they lived.
I managed to buy this badass sexist T-shirt for a mere $2. Look at it.
But the star connected with the Eunice character and felt that costume designer Bob Mackie could make Lawrence, then a mere 24, look believably like a senior.
Simms's two great subjects as a poet are the observation of nature and the nature of observation, and for him "seeing" – as opposed to mere "looking" – is a discipline, born of concentration and "repetition".
In this show, celebrities try to persuade customers they are mere look-alikes.
