Sentence examples similar to mere hearing from inspiring English sources

The distinction between listening and mere passive hearing has been a focus of her activities for decades; in 1985 she founded something called the Deep Listening Institute.

More radically, and generally, the jurisdiction of magistrates (archons) was much curtailed; they now conducted a mere preliminary hearing, and the main case went to a large popular jury.

The mere experience of hearing them sing with such mastery made up for a lack of tenderness or subtlety, which was plentifully supplied by the top-drawer supporting cast of Brangäne (Anne Sofie von Otter, intelligent and vigilant), the wise, wronged King Marke Matthew Bestt) and, most affecting of all, Jukka Rasilainen as Kurwenal, troubled, faithful and rigid with grief.

The Dow, like the traders themselves, surged forward mere minutes after hearing of the new arrangements that had come to be in the Oval Office, straining against the once-tight belt of the economy as though it had a Cialis-fueled priapism for which there was no cure.

But those warnings "could not be heard mere feet away," the suit says.

Gone are the days of shameless store freeloading to hear mere snatches of new CDs.

It can also be empty at 1 p.m. or 9 p.m. Regular patrons respond to whistles mere customers cannot hear.

It seems that the merest expectation of hearing something spooky can set your mind whirring.

For example, native speakers of English cannot hear the sounds of English being spoken as mere noise: if they hear those sounds at all, they hear them as English.

"The mere fact that this hearing is being held shows that Rocker is in a total state of denial; he doesn't get the message," said Michael Langford, a member of the Atlanta coalition.

I don't mean to suggest that every Congressional hearing is mere political theater.