Sentence examples for mere light from inspiring English sources

There's a resulting tendency to stereotype the composer's works as mere light entertainment.

This gentle encounter with the mysteries of colour is mere light entertainment – typical of so much art you'll see in Frieze week.

The rear yards of most mansions were mere light shafts, but the Kahn house courtyard is fully developed, all in stone, with half-stairways and small arcades of windows.

It is essential to start by browning it well in flour; though this should be a delicately meaty dish, a little caramelisation is rarely unwelcome, and Angela Hartnett's mere "light colouring" seems a wasted opportunity.

In 1980 X .J. Kennedy wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Ms. Fisher's "Out in the Dark and Daylight" (Harper) demonstrated that she "is a true poet, no mere light versifier".

They are certainly not mere "light" operas, which are soft-centred romantic offerings; nor are they "operettas", which are frilly, frothy affairs, devoid of any shade of the dark side.

But while pettiness can be humorous at times (I confess, I can be quite petty), there is more going on than mere light-hearted fun.

Kepler's new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument as traditionally understood Kepler's account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics.

(Until he told me this, I had thought his insistence on wearing sunglasses in the merest light was an act of vanity. It is not).

What they will see will be free of any of the grandstanding that is usually obligatory in such cavernous surroundings: all told, each night's show will consist of two musicians, the merest lighting effects, and a succession of songs founded in the most basic rock'n'roll.

These two sources are actively growing black holes a mere 490 light years apart.