Anticipation became overkill last week, when a predicted storm brought a mere dusting of snow and a lot of published photographs of plows all lined up with nowhere to go.
Apuleius in the closing chapters of his novel usually called The Golden Ass in English describes how a young man is brought from mere consciousness of Isis as a famous goddess with certain well-known rites and attributes, to a single-minded devotion to her.
And few will dispute the government's claim that there was something amiss in a system that brought a mere handful of successful prosecutions for insider dealing.Yet, in the City, London's financial centre, critics say the government is giving the FSA too many powers.
And Henry's mother (Jane Connell), whose box everyone eventually gathers in, grows more and more irritated at her son for bringing a mere flower girl to an important social event and turning what was supposed to be a pleasant and relaxing day at the races into a trial.
On the other end of the price spectrum is this dark bay/brown colt, who brought a mere $25,000 as a yearling, purchased by trainer Cal Lynch.
A 2¼-by-1¼ inch trilobite, prepared by a top 'bite restorer like Jeff Hammer, can fetch up to $30,000 a big jump from two years ago, when even the best specimens of these relatives of arthropods brought a mere $2,500.
Jesus Christ does not bring information or mere advice but embodies the reality of divine love.
He was once known as the "court poet" of the Ceausescu family, who ruled the country for 30 years and boasted that they would bring Romania beyond mere socialism into "perfect communism".
"Dear Jim," wrote Edgar Bergen over a black-and-white photograph of himself and the inanimate Charlie McCarthy, "Keep the magic alive". Like Bergen, Henson could bring life to mere objects.
