Sentence examples for mere chimera from inspiring English sources
It is particularly insidious because it cannot be flatly dismissed as a mere chimera.
It's an immersive pre-programmed environment, yet that environment is very obviously a mere chimera of real life.
For the same reasons, Cook Wilson also criticized Richard Dedekind's definition of continuity in Stetigkeit und die irrationale Zahlen (Dedekind 1872), which he called "a mere fantastic chimera" (SI, 352).
In any case, the philosophical or Romantic notion of nature as an unfathomable unity and creative force which cannot be seen nor touched, and which is obviously a direct response to some of the many questions raised by Kant's three Critiques, is not to be understood as a mere intellection, an empty chimera: Nature is the productive force pulsing in all living beings.
In contrast, the mere presence of the α2-β4 regiof of Gα16 in the 16α2β4QL chimera was insufficient to support efficient interaction with PLCβ or Fhit.
He held it to be "absolutely self-evident" (SI, 561), and he believed consequently that the idea of a non-Euclidean space is a "chimera" (SI, 456) and that the various non-Euclidean geometries are "the mere illusion of specialists" (SI, xxxix).
An advantage of our approach is that the gene-TE chimeras identified are supported by experimental evidence rather than just by coordinate overlaps or mere proximity (cf. [ 12, 13]), and thus enriches for a subset of TE insertions that may contribute to functional gene evolution in the host.
