Sentence examples for mere color from inspiring English sources

Rather than use them for mere color, Cushman slowly unveils the history and individuality of each character, and at this point Will's tale turns from picaresque to bildungsroman.

The timpani, though beginning pianissimo, are the vehicles for what will turn into a hair-raising ride; the piano is mere color.

724, which retained that common-law definition, the Court questioned "[w]hether mere color can constitute a valid trade-mark," A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. v. Broderick & Bascom Rope Co., 201 U.S. 166, 171, 26 S.Ct.

Now think about that, a black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team," he said.

Maybe some retrograde 60s has-beens thought that the mere color of his skin was a guarantee of something really leftist.

"The conviction grew upon me", he wrote, that his business successes could be endangered "if race prejudice and persecution and public discrimination from mere color was to spread up from the South and result in a fixed caste of color".

Pedro & Juana explore the capacity of objects to change their environment, through and indiscriminate use of materials, extreme playfulness with surfaces, mere placement, color, form or/and by tweaking their original function.

Charles D. Martin mused in The White African American Body that "blackness is clearly attached to racial identity" in the episode, commenting that the episode equates the cultural understanding of race to mere skin color.

Notice how much more stylized this painting is than Curanaj's: the detailing of the sea is eccentric and reduced, the wood posts nearly graphic in their simplicity, the sand and sky mere swatches of color.

Besides the mere intensity the color temperature of the bulb is also important.

I watched the red flash of his paddle across the water until it contracted to the merest glimpse of color, and then turned away.