Sentence examples for mere background from inspiring English sources

Is the distinction between real causes and mere background conditions merely an arbitrary and unsystematic affair?

Eriksen knows how to turn all this attention into mere background noise.

But this was mere background to the drama over the state budget.

Pierre Gagnaire of Sketch, among other restaurants, says he objects to the whole concept of music being mere background noise.

The 99.9percentnt of other homicides are, unless the victim is someone you've heard of, mere background noise.

India becomes mere background to a marital drama and comes into focus again only with a violent and arbitrary denouement.

But more often than not, there is still a white male in charge, and the rest of the world is mere exotic background.

Mr. Burns and his crew haven't used the more than 500 pieces they selected as mere illustration or background.

Yet all these references were kept in the background, as mere hints, as Ms. Burton brought forward a fresh silhouette.

Stripped of her or his national status, the stateless person of the 20th century is anathema because she or he presents difference – she called it the "dark background of mere difference" – to the world in its rawest, most debilitating state.

If Rubio can reduce the "Amnesty!" faction to mere grumbles in the background, while the House passes the Senate bill with Democratic and more-moderate Republican support, he will have achieved a revitalization of his party's chances among the fastest-growing American voter demographic.