Sentence examples for a mere play from inspiring English sources

— the production of a mere play.

At first, it might seem a mere play on words, but the debate about the viability of the AfPak concept is more serious and deadly than a discussion of geopolitical vocabulary.

It's only fitting they'd make history in a match-up that should have come with a complimentary toilet bowl, as the potential for a puke-fest always seemed a mere play away.

From this perspective, the world and all of manifestation is a mere "play" of consciousness, or lila, as it's called in Vedanta: What happens here is not ultimately real.

Toronto FC are a team very much still fronted, and often sustained, by Giovinco, but a mere play-off place will no longer be enough to satisfy them.

Free agency would allow Paul to choose his future team, but this strategy would functionally allow him to create one of his own; it would make Paul a player rather than a mere playing piece.

But this, I believe, is a mere playing with words" (Klagge and Nordman, 1993, 30).

Not understanding her material, Ms. Siegel took a moral question and made it into a mere relationship play, the default mode for much contemporary drama.

The lockout that ended last weekend was not, as some have asserted, a mere power play by the owners.

Live animals and blazing guns made the show more of a spectacle than a mere stage play.

And this is not mere play, because it also contains a worldly judgment about Jews dressing as goys, kissing the gentile ass, as it were.