Sentence examples for mere good from inspiring English sources

But he had power, a quality that for many women is superior to mere good looks.

It may bear down less on morality than on mere good manners, propriety, or adjustment to the prevailing social code.

Others display the "grey attention, mere good behavior, of the governing class": whispering, seat-shifting, head-nodding, knee-tapping, actions impossible to classify as attention or inattention.

It has, after all, never happened before, but you'd think the mere good fortune of being English might have left them better prepared.

and "You're No. 1" to a mere "Good Game" may be a long slide, but it is one all talented athletes face at some point.

The gap between the present tense (reality's tense) and the future conditional (where dreams and aspirations reside) is usually a wide one, traditionally bridged by sweat or perseverance or an optimistic attitude or mere good luck.

Iyer has long wondered "how globalism could acquire depths, an inwardness that would sustain it more than mere goods or data could".

American lives and freedom are not mere goods to be slapped with a price tag and bartered away.

Yet the psychological blow caused by dismissal may be far more devastating to the formerly lionised now unwanted corporate leader than it is to mere mortals.The good news is that having been fired, a boss can come "firing back", according to a well-timed new book by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward on how executives recover from career disasters.

Will children become mere consumer goods?

SOME might view the stories of BeeBop and Tumbles and Little Girl and Misty as mere feel-good tales: accounts of disabled animals helped by humans are, after all, easy to sentimentalize.