Sentence examples for mere manner from inspiring English sources

If academia elevates scholarly and impersonal inquiry above the kind of nutty, fictional, navel-gazing monologues of Nicholson Baker, then Fried is at once its high camp apotheosis and its disintegration into mere manner.

(Talk of will and reason or their acts as free or not is common in medieval thinkers, but is perhaps a mere manner of speaking, when what is intended is that the agent's exercise of reason or will is done freely or not).

We don't list them not because they are mere manners and conventions but because they are the unstated absolutes that let everything else go on.

This was mere mannerism.

In the past, the faithful did not accuse their critics of mere bad manners.

It may bear down less on morality than on mere good manners, propriety, or adjustment to the prevailing social code.

Other than mere bad manners, patient experienced arrogant and patronizing attitude of some clinicians and administrators: "Well, feeling that you're just one of… There was one doctor that I saw who looked at the screen and just, with no conversation, was just yawn, yawn, non-stop yawning and I said excuse me, am I boring you?

Chris Pallotta, the current proprietor of Country Club Bakery in Fairmont, founded in 1927 by Giuseppe Argiro as People's Bakery and touted by many as the origin point of the pepperoni roll, doesn't seem to mind that his artisanal-quality baked goods are considered by many customers to be mere foils for all manner of condiments.

The Ni 53.2 at.% Ti film, however, failed in a brittle manner at mere 0.8%, because precipitation hardening occurred with increasing Ti content.

The reader who is not a hunter may think that these last words are mere phraseology, simply a manner of speaking.

DailyBooth was (is still perhaps?) a phenomenon for a time as people became accustomed to sharing their daily lives in a more quirky manner than mere video can afford.