Sentence examples for mere forms from inspiring English sources

He was ready to credit England with a sense of nationhood wider and deeper than any provided for by the mere forms of government, and this gave drama to his otherwise unadorned chronicle.

The third order of beauty belongs to that "which forms not only such as we call mere forms but even the forms which form" (Ibid).

(Lunyu 3.3) Equally important was Confucius' insistence that the rites not be regarded as mere forms, but that they be practiced with complete devotion and sincerity.

While Kant does clearly allude to this theoretical background, it is noteworthy that views of the sort he articulates in the Aesthetic that space and time are transcendentally ideal, that they are mere "forms" of intuition, that they depend upon the "subjective constitution of the mind," and so on do not obviously make contact with the Leibniz/Newton debate.

Sometimes mere form serves as a springboard for an encounter.

We need more substance in pennies for the artists rather than mere form adjustments".

We have given ourselves over to something greater than mere form.

Yet Peter Abrahams's strongest novels seem to suggest, despite their allegiance to genre, a fascination with something beyond mere form.

Some people have suggested the Occupy Wall Street protest is a mere form of street theater, that the protesters have a myriad of grievances with no particular agenda.

Online games go far beyond a mere form of passive entertainment.

In these cases, initial impressions of the mere "form" of a material object generate approbation (T, 364).