Sentence examples for mere goods from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Good health -feeling good - is no longer viewed as a matter of mere good luck.

Some analysts see the Putin-Medvedev tandem as a mere good-cop, bad-cop act.

Others have attempted to answer this question by saying that Jesus was a "mere" good man with no divine dimensions.

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.