Sentence examples for a mere picture from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a mere picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is just a simple or insignificant image, often in contrast to something more substantial or meaningful.
Example: "What I saw was not a masterpiece, but rather a mere picture that failed to capture the essence of the moment."
Alternatives: "just a picture" or "only an image".

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Even a mere picture with the girls  comes at a price.

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Nevertheless, NMR still has two big advantages: It works on proteins that don't crystallize, and it can reveal a protein's dynamic nature rather than give a mere static picture.

Some even aspire to be more than mere picture shows and prefer to be thought of as information appliances.

And I vowed to keep my photo library down to a mere 1,000 pictures for the year.

There are a mere 122 pictures to steer you along from the 13th to the 20th centuries, some of them rather puzzling as examples of Russia's best.

"By the Sea" is far from a perfect work, even far from a great one; but it's a distinctive one; it's a composed movie, not mere pictures of actors acting, which already puts it far ahead of many of the year's presumptive Oscarizables.

We are not seeing mere pictures of people, but a trace of the people themselves, as they looked in life.

Smith was, Robertson wrote, "a true visionary", uncompromising, and "refusing to make concessions to tastefulness, or mere picture-making".

This is where their familiarity departs from being mere pictures of things as we know them.

Profoundly (almost impossibly) beautiful, this island in the Semporna archipelago, is betrayed by mere pictures and words.

With electronic books — a technology teeming with children's titles, many of them stunningly rendered for the Apple iPad — mere pictures and conversations are passé, at least pictures that don't move and conversations that you can't hear.

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