Sentence examples for mere exercises in 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".

"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.

Although some critics deemed his films mere exercises in nihilism, Haneke considered them attempts to attune viewers to the ways in which the structures of modern bourgeois society inhibit moral empathy and interpersonal communication.

In last Sunday's Times, Manohla Dargis suggests that Resnais, for much of his long, astonishing career has been accused of creating mere exercises in style, films without the requisite drama and empathetic characters with obvious motivations, a cinema (or should we say sin?) of the brain instead of the heart.

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.

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.

But now The Christian Century has come up with a variation on the concept that constitutes a genuine intellectual challenge rather than a mere exercise in snideness.