Sentence examples for mere dress from inspiring English sources

In short, why does fashion, as opposed to mere dress, exist?

With a mere dress, you can transform yourself into a businesswoman, a carpooling mom, an Audrey Hepburn wannabe or a princess.

Five years later, it became clear that this feat was a mere dress rehearsal, for the new breakwater, weighing about twenty-six hundred tons, was carried away in another storm.

The ordinarily great performer Jennifer Mudge, who plays the Witch, has been directed to act the role as if it had nothing to do with a child's idea of sexuality but, rather, with mere dress up: she and the other actors have been defanged and, having lost their bite, they just sparkle.

The chapter titled "Tales of Warfare" breathes fresh life into works like "Tale of the Disturbance in Hogen" that are most often assumed to be as dull as their titles and mere dress rehearsals for the more canonical "Tale of the Heike". But a warrior like Tametomo in "Tale of the Disturbance in Hogen" refuses to lie back down under the weight of conventional wisdom.

In fact, when most historians write about aerial bombing they focus on the Second World War and ignore the attacks on colonised populations in the inter-war years, seeing them as a mere "dress rehearsal" for the real thing.

But where a costume party ensemble is picked simply to amuse, many cosplayers feel a deeper connection with their chosen character that elevates the experience from mere dress-up to a more profound experience.

Once that would have been mere dressing-up.

Trico's animations are more than mere dressing.

But this is mere dressing on Nabokov's conclusion: namely that Gregor becomes "a big beetle".

There is also the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of reading motives, because these images go beyond mere dressing up.