Sentence examples for mere display from inspiring English sources

"Au Revoir Parapluie" is no mere display of arts-and-crafts ingenuity.

The mere display of American backing for a plan to oust them would be enough to cow their paid liegemen.

Marx knew it could not be won second-hand, by the mere display of other men's flowers.

And even in the wildest moments of the fiendishly difficult "Alborado del Gracioso" Mr. Thibaudet never indulged in mere display.

Even something as straightforward as buying a new television — a mere display, the ads wink — spawns a salivating beast of Ethernet, HDMI and surround-sound tentacles.

No mere display technique, the mingling of media is a sea change in ideas about the place of photography in the history of modern art.

The arguments for opera in the vernacular presuppose that opera is drama, not an occasion for mere vocal display.

To reduce that struggle to a mere erotic display is, in effect, to tighten the bonds by yet another notch.

Not content with serving up mere masterpiece displays, the museum has shaped both exhibitions around a specific subject: the Mongol occupation of China, from 1271 to 1368.

Despite the ups and downs, truffle season is always more of an event in Windhoek than it is in Paris, where truffles for many people can be a mere curiosity displayed in a glass case at a marketplace.

"Trying too hard" might be one way of putting it: a sense that the artist hadn't sufficiently enfranchised his or herself from an urge to display mere skill.