Sentence examples for mere black from inspiring English sources

By any measure, this is a massive installation, yet, in the vastness of the sea, it's a mere black speck.

As usual, Mr. Thompson made the point that nothing is more useless than viewing things in mere black and white.

For several hundred yards around a bomb crater, the trees were mere black stubs, scorched and limbless.

The low-angled sunlight reduced them to mere black blobs spread across the curl and slap of the sparkling river.

The long muzzle that defined Betsy had disappeared, and her nose was a mere black mark on the globe that was her face.

Strider did everything within his power to ensure that no white man was brought to justice for killing a mere black person.

Not only is Neuro-MVM much more accurate than the prevalent mean value models, but it is also more robust (and of a higher reliability) compared to a mere black-box model.

Three years after a federal court ruled in Hopwood v Texas that public universities in the state could no longer use race as a factor when considering applicants, there are a mere eight black students in a first-year class of 455 at the law school, a smaller percentage than in 1950.

We need to remember that in the 19th century, Harlem was a mere village; blacks lived in Lower Manhattan and then after the Civil War increasingly in Brooklyn.

On talk radio and Fox News, complaints about bigotry are routinely dismissed as a mere hustle — blacks "playing the race card" or being racist themselves.

That set up the actor up to portray Snape as something more complicated (and more tragic) than mere a black-caped villain.