Sentence examples for mere decoration from inspiring English sources

I love the idea of this gluttonous use of this accent tile: I feel like it's the fate of so much art to end up as mere decoration so maybe starting with this decorative source is a way to escape this".

The rest became mere decoration.

No one was cast for mere decoration.

Without Dionysus, art is mere decoration.

For all that embellishment, this show didn't feel like mere decoration.

But the designer had another motif rather than just mere decoration.

Ornamentation should be taken as part of mosque components and not as mere decorations done after-thought or filling in the gap.

For Giuseppe Tartini, best known for his "Devil's Trill" Sonata, melodic embellishments were not mere decorations but integral parts of his scores.

Jeff Turner, owner of Reef Aquaria Design of Coconut Creek, Fla., which builds and maintains large reef aquariums in homes, offices, hospitals and other institutions, says these are not mere decorations, but "an educational window into the sea".

The modern idea of art – our belief that artworks deserve to be taken seriously not as mere decorations or religious icons but unique displays of imagination and intellect – began in Italy in the Renaissance.

"A cousin to my paternal grandmother, (who referred to him as "cousin Siggy"), Freud understood the evocative power of nomadic tribal carpets -- these were no mere decorations, but allies in his analysis; whose soft wool, natural colors, and primeval graphics not only lulled his patients into a therapeutic state, but connected them to an artistic and cultural tradition older than written history".