Sentence examples for mere figures from inspiring English sources

But these are mere figures.

The mere figures suggest something worse than a gunfight; one survivor claimed the guerrillas surrendered and were simply shot.

But, by relegating the various subplots to the margins, Lapine turns most of the other characters into mere figures in a shadow play.

So the clock ticked down, a game of cricket reduced to mere figures now, and none of them with a pound sign in front of them.

But what makes them full, intricate characters instead of mere figures of satire is that they are in on the joke, even if they don't always acknowledge it.

Before Richard's defeat and abdication, Cumpsty plays him as a mere figure of fantasy who seems to belong to another play altogether — a secondary character in, say, "All's Well That Ends Well".

To say that real, big things should be considered as metaphors shows some doubt in their realness, a will to dematerialize; the moment a thing becomes a mere figure of speech, its bright noon is past.

That Petruchio is no mere figure in a fable is underscored by Mr. Hall's use of the (often scrapped) prologue to "Shrew," wherein a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly is tricked into believing he is a lordly gentleman, for whom the story of Kate and Petruchio is a comic diversion.

(How much the British have suffered from their fatuous belief that the Irish are stupid!) So it has gone with the work and reputation of Thomas Paine: sometimes obscure, and sometimes a mere figure in the carpet, and at other times standing out in bold and salient letters.

When you don't vote for the ANC, you should know that you are choosing that man who carries a fork…who cooks people".In case anyone should think this a mere "figure of speech", as his officials later tried to claim, the president, who is a lay pastor, went on to drive his message home: "When you are carrying an ANC membership card, you are blessed.

Talk about persons must be taken seriously, and not as a mere figure of speech.