Sentence examples for mere meaning from inspiring English sources

He calls it the punctum: that aspect (often a detail) of a photograph that holds our gaze without condescending to mere meaning or beauty.

The gap between taste and tastelessness — between beauty and mere meaning — has become a crisis of cinematic identity, and in the very existence of the cinema as an art form.

What the National Security Agency learns about people by studying metadata may be only the start of how much we can tell, apart from the mere meaning of words.

Only on that level of mere meanings, Hume asserts, is there room for demonstrative knowledge.

They are paying another newcomer, Luis Sojo, a mere $135,989, meaning the 10 new players -- 40percentt of the roster -- will cost the Yankees $9,756,592.

In West Virginia, for example, the hourly minimum wage for a prison job is a mere 4 cents, meaning a $5 copay would cost an incarcerated person almost an entire month's pay.

These days, of course, the United States may still have the largest number of Protestants, but the percentage of the population that is Protestant has slipped to a mere 50percentt, meaning that sometime in the near future, America will be a nation with a religious plurality and not a majority.

An alternative suggestion is that the name derives from Seo-mere-saetan meaning "settlers by the sea lakes".

In those circumstances, that intervention cannot be considered to be a mere technical means within the meaning specified in paragraph 28 above.

But words are mere vessels for meaning, and this one has long since been put to other uses.

We bring certain inferences to bear on what we experience such as to transform mere succession into meaning and form.