Sentence examples for mere feat from inspiring English sources
Grieve's performance, without being a mere feat of impersonation, vividly captures Brown's well-documented mixture of moral seriousness and high temper.
But Plutarch wanted a more realistic texture for his portraits, and he was less interested in battlefield achievements than in, as he put it, "the virtues and vices of the men who performed them"; "a chance remark or joke," he wrote, "may reveal far more of a man's character than the mere feat" of winning a battle.
While the mere feat of surviving a trip through space (35 million+ miles) and a seven-minute atmospheric entry (which was totally automated, by the way, and required the craft to decelerate from 13,000 MPH) is impressive enough, the show is just getting started.
Amazingly for a film that features around 300 effects shots and boasts complex creature designs, Pan's Labyrinth was completed for a mere £10m, a feat del Toro attributes to the lessons learnt on Blade II and Hellboy ('I love to play with the big toys... and to learn from them').
He elicited a round of applause, as if the mere fact of the milk's arrival were a feat worth saluting, and pointed out a delegation of Belarusian officials in the audience.
Which is ironic because here, at a mere domestic match, the feats of athleticism made the game look like an Olympic highlights montage.
Five years later, it became clear that this feat was a mere dress rehearsal, for the new breakwater, weighing about twenty-six hundred tons, was carried away in another storm.
DENVER, Oct. 27 — One is not given a nickname like "Dragonslayer" for performing feats of a mere mortal.
De Villiers had earlier broken Sanath Jayasuriya's 19-year-old record for the fastest ODI fifty, taking a mere 16 deliveries to achieve the feat by launching Jason Holder over the long-off boundary.
That courageous effort was a mere footnote in a peerless career of extraordinary breakdown feats and inspirational leadership.
