Sentence examples for mere invention from inspiring English sources

But the man is a mere invention.

In the mind-set of the former Serbian leader, the consistency of Serbian brutality -- from the leveling of Vukovar to the massacres at Srebrenica -- was a mere invention of the West.

But even if Hamilton is correct (and I think he is) about the direction of this trend, historians will always take umbrage at the willy-nilly encroachment of mere invention on their territory of fact, while novelists will always counter that being limited to mere fact constrains true insight.

Mere invention isn't enough; the novelty has to be something customers want.

But it is more probably a mere invention (SHA 1916.7 A, 13).

Critics of the Odyssey have sometimes been at p. xiiipains to distinguish its "inner" from its "outer" geography — the inner true and real, the outer a world of mere invention and fairy tale.

But Hayman argues that Jung never truly believed such personas were mere inventions, and throughout his life concealed metaphysical beliefs in order to present himself as a rational scientist.

Such inclusive or generic usage is thus not easily dismissed as a mere philosophers' invention.

But Jacobson seems to want to make a veridical statement about Treslove's unhappiness, and this passage is forced to take its place in the novel alongside other data that are similarly exaggerated, similarly impossible to believe in, and yet similarly impossible to discount as mere fairy inventions from the Forest of Arden.

And to call all these computing-inspired inventions mere "improvements" is like calling TV a mere improvement of radio.

Jack the Ripper is an invented villain, a figure of gothic melodrama who serves the purpose of making five murdered women also seem like inventions, mere accessories after the fiction.