Sentence examples for mere experience from inspiring English sources

They believe in sensuality, not sense; in thrill, not mere experience.

Most of the people in the room, it seemed, came to savor the mere experience rather than with any serious hope of stuffing their jewelry boxes.

Yes, Kelly knows his way around Washington, but standing up to the federal government, and to Congress, making the case to the Bush Administration that New York City is a national asset that deserves vastly more counterterrorism resources than it has been getting, requires a degree of nerve, even pugnacity, that mere experience as a high federal official doesn't necessarily confer.

The mere experience of hearing them sing with such mastery made up for a lack of tenderness or subtlety, which was plentifully supplied by the top-drawer supporting cast of Brangäne (Anne Sofie von Otter, intelligent and vigilant), the wise, wronged King Marke Matthew Bestt) and, most affecting of all, Jukka Rasilainen as Kurwenal, troubled, faithful and rigid with grief.

As distinct from mere experience of architectural objects, appreciation of architectural objects brings to bear cognition and other inputs, such as history and context.

According to Bermudez (2011, 2015), there is no feeling of mineness, which goes over and above the mere experience of the physical properties of the body, no distinctive positive phenomenology of ownership as such.

The behaviour of these people seems to express what we might call mere experience-fragments, the contents of which are so narrow and unintegrated that the subject is unable to cope and interact with others in the ways that even split brain subjects can.

So if it was not mere everyday experience that led to Galileo's discovery, what did?

Ever since Katharine Hepburn declared, "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!," African river boating has been a booming industry.

"It makes it a little more palatable," said Ravi Dhar, director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management and a psychology professor at Yale, explaining that a resort fee suggests you are getting something above and beyond a mere hotel experience.

In the 19th century the word became associated chiefly with the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807; Phenomenology of Mind), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who traced the development of the human spirit from mere sense experience to "absolute knowledge".