Sentence examples for mere guilty from inspiring English sources

According to Pinsky, our fascination with these newer narcissistic role models may seem a mere guilty pleasure, but, he argues, it is a reflection of the deep, primal chord they strike within us, the desire to emulate and then destroy our icons.

Mr. Rafsanjani also suggested that Iran was being judged guilty by mere association with its fellow Shiites in Iraq.

So has television actually got better or am I just facing up to the fact that I've been guilty of mere movie-purist pig-headedness for all these years?

Between her and her "c" word of a boss Quinn (Constance Zimmer, her venality at eleven), the show could easily devolve into a mere cruel soap, its own guilty pleasure.

But today, Mr. Lewis took the stand in Superior Court, not as a defendant, but as a witness who had pleaded guilty to a mere misdemeanor and been sentenced to one year's probation.

I will go further and say, that had the indictment been for the advocacy of violence, you gentlemen of the jury, would still have to render a verdict of "Not Guilty," since the mere belief in a thing or even the announcement that you would carry out that belief, can not possibly constitute a crime.

For they know that, too often, "innocent until proven guilty" is a mere phrase and not a reality.

Web analytics shows that his name has been mentioned only a few times in the last few hours, mere days after his not guilty on all counts verdict.

Has her own party been guilty of more than mere silence?

Nearly four years and $120m on, the tribunal had managed to try only one man (another had pleaded guilty); it held a mere seven in custody.

Once Mariana is there, it becomes possible to believe that Angelo is guilty of nothing but mere desire - that this hideously chaste man has committed the crime of being "an eminent body".