Sentence examples for a mere trick from inspiring English sources

If morality is a mere trick of the brain, some may fear, our very grounds for being moral could be eroded.

— in front of the Laundromat where she has been unconscious in the hammock of his narrative for most of this day — the snake in the tree above them was digesting a small deer — the deer's bones like a ghost ship blossoming as a mere trick inside a clear bottle — it now sails past the day moon on her long bare arm which she scratches with the calloused toe of a croissant, the coffee is bitter enough.

To claim love against obedience is a mere trick of the ego and the mischief of this world, another false idol that needs to be smashed.

The "duality" of light, as this phenomenon came to be known, reflects the odd reality that, depending on the sort of measuring device used, light can function both as a wave and as a particle.At the time, Planck saw his quanta as a mere mathematical trick, of the sort beloved by physicists needing to untangle knotty equations.

These are no mere tricks, and in a show almost three hours long, with enough gurning to last a lifetime, you feel you've earned them.

One of the most accomplished of Muslim astronomers, the Persian al-Biruni, complained about anti-scientific attitudes among Islamic extremists, while the medical scientist Rhazes, who was admired by al-Biruni, argued that scientists are more useful to mankind than religious leaders and that miracles are mere tricks.

Overall, however, Newman delivers a more positive judgement: "[Puccini's] operas are to some extent a mere bundle of tricks, but no one else has performed the same tricks nearly as well".

This is the first reference to Shakespeare as a working playwright – maliciously twisting a line from Henry VI Part III to accuse its author (a mere "player") of stealing tricks from his better-educated betters.

Why this should be so is still opaque.These uncertainties do not turn global warming into a mere scare story or confidence trick, but they do create confusion.

Woland has a giant talking cat as an assistant, and carries out a stage trick in which a man's head is removed and carries on talking, which is likely not the trick of a mere illusionist.

But that poses a problem for your data if a mere 3D-printed model can trick your phone into giving up your secrets.