Sentence examples for mere copy from inspiring English sources
Why give such a lavish setting to a mere copy? he wondered.
Its practitioners are hacks, whose domain is Grub Street and who produce mere copy.
"Even under the grime the detail and the colour seemed fantastic, far too good for a mere copy.
Though a mere copy of the original in Magdeburg, the picture's "trees and pools and rocks" take Parry's breath away.
Who decides whether another invention is a mere copy or a substantive enhancement that deserves protection, too?
The poet as a man and poetry as a form of statement both seemed untrustworthy to Plato, who depicted the physical world as an imperfect copy of transcendent ideas and poetry as a mere copy of the copy.
The patterns of 1870 1910 were not, however, mere copies or repetitions of colonial trends.
Some sniff that Indian e-commerce firms are mere copies of Western ones, or that they largely serve the rich.
Yet it is a room full of unassuming botanical specimens, mere copies of flowers, that draws the crowds each day.
Google – the vendor – and the studios – the rights holders – are using copyright to control something much more profound than mere copying.
And of course there are several not-Rembrandts that, if they had been placed near Rembrandts, might have had something to tell us about devotion to a master that goes beyond mere copying.
