Sentence examples for mere exercises from inspiring English sources

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.

I see his work above all as a series of extremely vivid, complete observations and not mere exercises in introspection as some might.

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.

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

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

Someone learning about the Great War exclusively from "Downton" would think of it as a mere exercise in honor, rather than the muddled moral disgrace it was.