Sentence examples for mere meat from inspiring English sources

How can mere meat inspire such intrigue?

We must reconceive ourselves as mere meat machines running algorithms, soon to be overtaken by metal machines running better ones.

How does she consider humans — as potentially dangerous enemies, as mere meat, as complex and sentient, or as a lobster-like subspecies?

When D'Artagnan, the Newark purveyor of foie gras, game, truffles and mushrooms, decided to open its first Manhattan store, at 152 East 46th Street, a mere meat market was clearly never a possibility.

The murdered woman in a crime novel stands in for our vulnerability or for our sense of being mere meat puppets, but she also symbolises our struggle to get out from under what can sometimes feel like life-sucking roles as mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and carers, in order to claim our own identities.

The industry is profit-driven and animals in the system treated as mere meat-producing machines.

The horn of a bull is built of protein – it's a piece of keratin – and woe to the matador who mistakes a horn for a mere piece of meat.

"The abortion lobby claims that the Gosnell clinic is an outlier, but the footage released this morning by Live Action reveals once more that the abortion industry treats women and children as mere pieces of meat," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.

When they stand alone, Nicolson's details prove far more effective, like her observation that when, rarely, the body of a soldier was recovered and sent home for burial, the grieving family often received something resembling a mere lump of meat, "no larger than a Sunday roast".

Although, given the sandwich-paste consistency and vapid flavour of the meat – a mere 8mm in depth, at its fullest – perhaps that is a blessing.

No matter how convincingly McDonald's is exonerated from carrying contaminated meat, the mere association with this news is a public-relations catastrophe for the chain.