Sentence examples for mere look from inspiring English sources

Consequently, the well-defined sequence of individual tasks that constitute an operation becomes so routine that team members often don't need words to signal the start of a new stage in the procedure; a mere look is enough.

Having grammatically systematized all the many aspects that turn seeing into gawking, he showed me how he could apply those same grammatical transformations to any verb, so that one could open a door or run to the store or throw a ball with all of the same nuanced inflections of impropriety, surprise, and shock that transform a mere look into a gawk.

A mere look at house prices compared to cars over the past 10 years shows just how different a market we're talking: The average price of a residential property is 77% higher now than in 2005, whereas the price of a car is 9% lower than then.

But we can both confront the otherness of the past and immerse ourselves in it, as in these astonishing lines from The Story of Manu, describing a mere look of desire between a goddess and a man: Like the beetle that, from concentrating on the bee, becomes a bee, by taking in that human being she achieved humanity with her own body.

A mere look at the titles of the chapters reveals this concern.

I never watched this show when it originally aired (1998-2002)—something about the mere look of the actors made something deep inside me quietly enraged but when I saw that all four seasons were available for streaming, I decided to retroactively check it out.

In this show, celebrities try to persuade customers they are mere look-alikes.

Simms's two great subjects as a poet are the observation of nature and the nature of observation, and for him "seeing" – as opposed to mere "looking" – is a discipline, born of concentration and "repetition".

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Thursday August 28 2003 The difference runs much deeper than mere looks: Susan Nathan is the only Jew among 25,000 Muslims in Tamra, one of the country's dozens of Arab communities whose council is run by Islamic fundamentalists.

This world is full of superficial dating where teens and even men and women date because of mere looks.

Seen from a distance, they remind one of lakes and meres; looked at more closely, the water is on the move.