Sentence examples for mere love from inspiring English sources

Mere love is not sufficient for it, till he applies in some way to your self love.

She is not thinking of mere love stories, but of "Spenser's Faerie Queene or Ariosto, where the soul is free of the restraints of history and fact".

Ubisoft may have run into trouble for its attitude to female characters, but at least it didn't make Aveline a mere love interest to Assassin's Creed III lead, Connor.

In the final analysis, he said, an athlete's need to cling to a career that is past due goes beyond a mere love of the game; it says more about an unpreparedness to face a future without sports.

Analyze this out.— bearing in mind many new relations from language.— the social instinct more than mere love,— fear for others acting in unison.— active assistance &c &c.

But today, increasingly the issue is not mere love or hate, but rather indifference.

But I'd guess Vic and Bob retain sufficient anarchic spirit, even now, to ensure that a tour subtitled The Poignant Moments will be no mere love-in.

Its real subject, the engine that drives both the humor and the pathos, is female friendship, which is shown to be far more volatile, treacherous and demanding than mere heterosexual love.

Yet, in a way, it is easier to relate to – since those of us who are godless are usually not believers in an afterlife either – as a way of thinking about total final loss than that strain of thought that consoles by saying mere earthly love was not, in the end, all that important anyway.

In Robert Creeley's A Marriage, we see vows and passion turn, over time, to mere habit, with love being replaced by cohabitation.

But complicating the lives of these superheroines (as it can for mere mortals) is love.