Sentence examples for mere book from inspiring English sources

Given the unavoidable limits of any mere book, Carroll inevitably highlights some things more than others.

Commissioned as part of Finland's celebration of a century of independence, the library is no mere book repository.

Even though I do still rather like that novel, I wonder if any mere book is worth so high a price.

Such writers as Graham Greene, nearly all of whose novels have been filmed, must be tempted to regard mere book sales as an inconsiderable aspect of the rewards of creative writing.

But we did state that an 'itinerant evangelist' did not become 'a mere book agent by selling the Bible or religious tracts to help defray his expenses or to sustain him.' 319 U.S. page 111, 63 S.Ct.

But these are only trifling quibbles with what is, ultimately, a gorgeously elegiac volume, possessing the sustained tonal quality that marks out a collection from a mere book of poems.

A big deficit is not about mere book-keeping.

Shouldn't art be about more than mere book-balancing?

As long as the euro area remains intact, Target2 claims are mere book-keeping entries (although if it were to disintegrate, the Bundesbank would take a hit, in principle limited to 27% of all such claims, reflecting its capital share in the ECB).

Annie Mauger, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, said that for councils, there's a choice between "bricks or brains" – and that they are in danger of replacing a library service with a mere "book-lending" service.

The conflict between Harry and Voldemort is too sweeping, too elemental, too lucrative to be contained in mere books.