Sentence examples for a mere technique from inspiring English sources

Journalists "try their best to humanise their tales of woe", he wrote, but this so often became "a mere technique in a numbingly repetitive formula".

But it is one thing to seek to liberate Buddhist practice from unsustainable or unbelievable worldviews and another to reduce it to a mere technique, even one that is therapeutic.

Filming Taris underwater, Vigo turns the mere technique of breathing into an exaltation of bubbles, an ecstatically disorienting aesthetic rendering of the biological.

As in so many prior concerts, the Cleveland's notational perfection transcended mere technique and became an aesthetic statement.

See beyond "strengths and weaknesses" as a mere interview technique.

What makes that goal a sacred testament to the genius of that Brazil team and that era was the approach play and the sheer joy of the finish - more than mere technique, more than just mastery of a difficult skill.

Mr. Libatique's furious, high-contrast diffusion shows more than mere technique.

Style triumphed over mere technique and concept here, with one terrific act and soloist following another, building to mid-show standing ovations and a final jubilant roar from the audience.

One commentator on the book club website thought this mere technique: "by the halfway point it felt as though I was reading the output of a series of creative writing tutorials, each asking the writer to demonstrate competence in a different genre".

Van Gogh also greatly admired the technically proficient genre pieces of his friend Anthon van Rappard – whose critical response to what Van Gogh considered his first serious work, The Potato Eaters, was a devastating blow to the painter's self-esteem – yet he clearly recognised that for him mere technique was not the important thing.

He did not come all this way for mere technique.