Sentence examples for mere address from inspiring English sources

Cooper was a popular writer, and this, to Poe, was a good sign that he was a bad one: "The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery — in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks".

While the immediately preceding inspiration for the speech was America's then-interminable energy crisis at the hands of OPEC, Carter's speech is far more expansive than a mere policy address.

Leaker Edward Snowden then said that, with a mere email address, he could access the content of that account.

In 1328 the government was forced to appoint an administrator, John of Mere, to address the crisis.

Am I looking for excuses not to change, by painting my failings as too mysterious and complex for mere rationality to address?

One took mere months to address while the other continues to drag on with no end in sight.

With the state of the union address mere weeks away the GOP will rush to make a show of strength through symbolic votes.

His grassroots campaign for Senate in 2012 promised action, not mere talk, in addressing Obamacare and our nation's $17tn and ever-growing debt.

This includes the details of more than 33 million affair-seeking users across 30 countries, data that adds to mere names and addresses both photographs and recorded sexual fantasies.

What he does cop to enjoying about Le Bernardin is the wait staff — the thick-necked Levantine men in black tunics who start at his merest gesture and address him as "Monsieur Kim-BALL," making everyone at the table wonder, not entirely in jest, whether they've been made to take French diction lessons.

But it's no mere entertainment; it addresses such mighty matters as the war in Afghanistan, the American way of war, the diplomatic glue of international relations, and the role of journalism in the political order, and does so only superficially.