Sentence examples for mere exercise from inspiring English sources

But these shut-offs are no mere exercise in cost-recovery.

It is quite possible that he copied out the list as a mere exercise in penmanship.

As we saw with Cooking, the mere exercise of setting targets, even rough ones, can be a powerful focusing mechanism.

But it was a one-off, dismissed by the Architectural Review as a mere "exercise in modernity".

However, this book is no mere exercise in genre spoofing; this is, after all, a Lemony Snicket novel.

Always one of their goals is to create new knowledge for all of us, so no endeavor in this class is a "mere exercise". Steven Strang.

Stewart's songs have never been mere exercises in bawdiness.

Gordon suspects that the letters were little more than "a stirring fantasy," mere "exercises in composition".

His stories about Vietnam were not mere exercises of "creative license"; they were fabrications, and they cannot be excused.

In the thoughtful booklet notes, he writes that the works are "first and foremost, character pieces," not mere exercises.

"I said to myself, 'Oh, my God!' He said, 'We'll begin tomorrow.' " But Mr. Delouche's films are not mere exercises in nostalgia.