Sentence examples for a mere vestige from inspiring English sources

A Kafka of whom a mere vestige remains, rebelling against even the best, the most faithful of translations?

The textile industry has been reduced to a mere vestige of the enormous manufacture that once underpinned the economy of the city.

In the copepods the maxillipeds are followed by four pairs of swimming legs; a fifth pair is sometimes highly modified for reproductive purposes and is sometimes reduced to a mere vestige.

And this image of the star is no mere vestige of the twentieth century; it's the foundation of cinema.

Their swooping, liquid movements are the result of techniques that trace a muscular process as it passes through the body: here, balletic form is visible but the steps themselves are not, as if their dynamics have been erased, leaving mere vestiges of their shapes.

More than mere vestiges, the reuse of such modules underlies how HP can leverage billions of dollars in previous R&D expense to bring economies of scale to its 3D printing supply chain.

By now it is a vestige, a mere gesture.

Murphy, who's a mere fifty-five years old, is a vestige of another age of comedy, a far more freewheeling and anarchic one — an age of crueller comedy that depended as much on the id as on the superego.

A year earlier it showed a mere 1% rise.

And unlike pricey superstars like Madonna or recent O2 draw Barbra Streisand, who not only clock-watch but ogle the bottom line obsessively, Prince is charging a mere £31.21 for the privilege of seeing him hammer his body while wearing very high heels, the last vestige of cross-dressing left on a man who used to wear little other than ladies' smalls.

Not a "mere" tweaker.