Sentence examples for mere ingenuity from inspiring English sources

Humans began to respond to environmental stimuli by innovation, rather than by mere ingenuity.

Such simple ingenuity appealed to me.

The transcendent touch of the fifteenth-century painter Hans Memling is so rare and subtle — so easily mistaken for mere, sweet ingenuity — that you may have to see lots of his work really to see it at all.

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"Au Revoir Parapluie" is no mere display of arts-and-crafts ingenuity.

The competition was a chance to prove that no matter how intelligent, a mere computer could not outpace the ingenuity of an actual human being.

A mere duck will not do for the clockmaker, any more than clockwork, for all its engrossing ingenuity, will do for Carey.

Le Roy was a disciple of Henri Poincaré, who had argued that scientific theories are neither mere summaries of data nor deduced from axioms but are creative constructions, products of human thought and ingenuity.

The value of these things is the result of the ingenuity, competence and (perhaps above all) hard work of human beings, not something that follows automatically from the mere presence and availability of datasets over the web in a form which permits their reuse.

Among its small-scale ingenuities is its revelation of acting as an intimate smokescreen, a scrim of personality that contrasts poignantly with mere personhood.

The mere existence of that enterprise underscores how badly the American proclivity for development has led the economy astray, while also affirming the sheer ingenuity of that proclivity.