Sentence examples for mere, but from inspiring English sources

It's only after the mere but full-feeling half-hour you've spent with her, when you're on your way home to your shabby little digs, that you realize Alice is a full-blown allegory.

In response to the question "What is his great subject?", 21% plumped for mortality, two separate lots of 14% for Jewishness and sex, and a mere (but nonetheless baffling) 7% for celebrity – leaving 43% to vote for narcissism.

Are they mere but powerful symbols deserving of special enshrinement in public spaces?

Not mere computers, but robots, artificial beings, whose humanity we may address, but who are, ultimately, a threat.

In Scotland, not mere years but decades add distinction.

Many are mere shells, but others are extraordinarily active.

War is no mere backdrop but rather the essential context of the Letters.

A landscape term is not employed for mere referring, but functions to bring particular associated ideas into social discourse.

film, and this grain is no mere accident but an essential quality of Haynes's world.

The soles may be mere rope, but they're Jimmy Choo, after all.

Lines on his forehead are not mere wrinkles but waves etched into his skull.