Sentence examples for mere episode from inspiring English sources

Its 74-year career was a mere episode compared with Rome, Hapsburg or Britain.

The chances are that the tax issue will end up not so much the reform of the century as a mere episode in Mr Kohl's compromise-bound 15th year of power.

The Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf pointed out that "the Arab world … cannot bring itself to consider the Crusades a mere episode in the bygone past … there can be doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades.

A mere episode after saying how pleased I was that Mark Duck Phillips Moseses had been added to the cast, I'm now already a bit exasperated by Dennis, a laughably two-dimensional weasel of a character, seemingly introduced solely to move the plot forward.

Oops again, but this mistake turns out to be a profitable one because, while she's waiting at a stoplight in a car that looks suspiciously like it wasn't smashed a mere episode ago, Carrie realizes that Roya's Arabic tirade included a reference to the fact that Nazir wouldn't run.

Without those traits, humanitarian interventions become mere episodes of imperial willfulness, and missions of liberation turn, all too soon, into the degradations of occupation.

After front-runner BenDeLaCreme removed herself from the race mere episodes shy from the finale, the crown was anyone's for the taking.

But either way, a mere four episodes feel too short for this series.

And the BBC has been criticised for whittling it down into a mere six episodes.

After that, Six Feet Under (a mere 63 episodes) felt like a sprint.

In a mere twelve episodes, the show has covered, in largely undidactic fashion, a variety of themes.