Sentence examples for mere how from inspiring English sources

Then, when the fighting starts, the "what" becomes a mere "how" (it's no spoiler to mention what the world knows, that Katniss will triumph) and the movie deflates — as if the unleashing of the highly-ratcheted drama were actually just a by-the-numbers delivery of a mechanical exposition.

He also learned to read the weather in ways that went beyond its mere measurement: how every change in wind direction was a signal of an altered pattern, and how to read the speed and turbulence of the jet stream by studying the vapor trails of high-flying aircraft.

As the art fair reached its 10th anniversary this week, another barrier seemed to go up, dividing the Basel insiders from the mere interlopers: how many times had someone attended in the last decade?

He's in second spot, and Kaymer's lead is down to a mere six! "How about we just pretend Kaymer isn't playing at the weekend?" suggests Simon McMahon.

On Friday, Apple's new iPhone went on sale (for a mere $199; how does that make you early adopters feel who stood in line last year for the privilege of plunking down three times that amount? Just wondering).

To the Book of Matthew, where Jesus denounces the outwardly but not truly religious, there is added a quotation from "Mere Christianity": "How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious?" They are "worshiping an imaginary God".

In the manifest image persons are very different from mere things; how and why normative assessments apply to things is an important and contentious question within the framework.

But if not by mere luck, how did buy and hold succeed for decades?

If you don't trust a mere civilian, how about Henry David Thoreau, as cited in a poster you can buy on senioritis.net: "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know".

The late painting instructor, famous for his storied, 11-year run as the host of "The Joy of Painting," would have turned 73 years old in 2015, were he the immortal personification of happiness born from a pristine canvas in 1942 with the sole purpose of teaching us mere amateurs how to wield a paintbrush still alive today.

Loar (1990) points out that the embedded occurrence of "feels like such and such" in sentences like "if pains feel like such and such then Q" cannot be accounted for in a model that treats knowing of what it is like as mere know-how.