Sentence examples for a mere surface from inspiring English sources

We founder in a mere surface culture of smirk, snark and innuendo.

Apple is hoping to avoid that by scanning "sub-epidermal skin layers" at a very detailed level, in other words beyond the mere surface of a finger.

Still worse was the suggestion that philosophical questions are mere surface expressions of a philosopher's underlying psycho-pathology.

In many cases the wound in the soft parts will be reduced to a mere granulating surface, or entirely cicatrized at the end of three weeks, and a more simple dressing may be substituted for the Lister gauze.

Beyond the lurid "Lady Macbeth," critics have come to see even Shostakovich's most triumphal musical gestures as mere surface, hiding the cunning silences of a dissident.

So when we catch a running joke we see the mechanical human behaviour behind the mere surface of variety.

But here all that is mere surface.

It is never mere surface embellishment.

Some - like Miuccia Prada - try to dig deeper that mere surface.

But this is mere surface, and Bowie's influence is deep in the DNA of contemporary fashion.

Commentators sometimes brush off this excellence as mere surface sheen, irrelevant to the deeper meaning of music.