Sentence examples for mere effect from inspiring English sources

At very quiet dynamics it can sound precious, its pianissimos a mere effect.

It is not for mere effect that the entrance to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center specifies "Firearms Prohibited".

Here Balanchine style is repeatedly turned into mannerism, so that even a transfer of weight, with pelvic emphasis, becomes a mere effect.

Computer science has revolutionized work at many engineering firms, but Balmond feels that design software is often used lazily or for mere effect, whereas he hopes that the A.G.U., which he calls "an investigation into a new aesthetic," can make rational principles the basis for generating designs.

If law is reduced to ideology, or seen as its mere effect, then legality looks contingent and unprincipled, having no necessary content or definition, no intrinsic character.

For Butler, even though the self is the mere effect of repeated gender performances, it is nonetheless real: There are selves, they are socially constructed.

Or are they mere effects?

That gesture for Ms. Mearns and that flat-table exit look like mere effects.

His Moritz von Oswald Trio with Max Loderbauer and Vladislav Delay later reformatted the jazz trio for the steady pulse of techno, creating scintillating grooves built from almost nothing; echo and delay becoming backbone rather than mere effects.

One powerful guitar chord out of the blue happened on Thursday to coincide with the most electrifying gear change in the Goggans-Squire duet, but even such moments are mere effects.

Moral judgments and evaluations are "images" and "fantasies," says Nietzsche, the mere effects of type-facts about agents (D 119).