Sentence examples for mere display of from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

In her life and beyond, the mere display of Miss Pastrana's body served both as public spectacle and the receptacle of each generation's fears, expectations and controversies.

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.

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.

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

The California roots of the Internet craze, with its puritanical-utopian communitarian longings, have had a softening, even frowning, effect on mere display.

The majority decided actual physical contact rather than a mere threat or display of force is necessary to raise this defense.

So, above all, his was an ethical style, pressed into the service of a greater truthfulness and affection, not a peacock display of mere cleverness or self-regard.

These non sequiturs don't reveal some serious inner conflict; they're a mere facade, a catwalk display of harsh aggressiveness that we now can recognize as very 1980s.