Sentence examples for mere flight from inspiring English sources

Cat owners don't have to hide their kittens just yet, but pretty soon, Schrödinger's thought experiment might become more than a mere flight of fancy.

The willingness to imagine exaggerated scenes and characters — the show's gestures of "surrealism," as they have often been called — aren't mere flights of fancy but rather an ambitious effort to look harder at the world, to access a more alert and probing realism.

Without making such scenarios explicit, we run the risk of dismissing signs of trauma for being mere flights of drama.

Easy because it is a mere five-hour flight from New York and almost everyone speaks a fluent, softly accented English.

They know just the place: the Sheraton Salobre, a swish new resort which opened last year on Gran Canaria, a mere four-hour flight away.

I was a mere six hours' flight from London, my mobile phone worked perfectly, yet it felt like a different universe.

A mere five-hour flight from London, Freetown is one of Africa's safest capitals: the country recently underwent peaceful, free and fair democratic elections which resulted in the smooth transition to power of the opposition party.

I had taken a mere two-hour flight, so that night, over an unhurried dinner of spaghetti Bolognese and garlic bread, Valdes-Dapena and Birch gave me the lowdown on Bermuda politics and economics and regaled me with tales of their travels — they have places in Colorado, Mexico, and New York, and have trekked along the Annapurna Circuit, in Nepal, and Camino de Santiago, in Spain.

But a spectacularly scary hemorrhagic fever outbreak - ravaging countries a mere single plane flight from the USA! - holds the potential to propel a rightward swing next Tuesday.

Announcements at train and bus stations reminding us to "report unattended bags, luggage or suspicious activity" are now just part of the background noise; stringent rules in airports about the carriage of everything from shaving foam and water to wrapped presents on flights mere minor irritations that we accept as part and parcel of the flying experience.

As of noon Monday, a mere 56 domestic flights had been canceled, Flightstats said.