(Mikyö Dorje 2006: 273) Therefore conventional truth is "one that is devoid of an intrinsic reality, rather it is mere name (ming tsam), mere sign (rda tsam), mere linguistic convention (tha snyad tsam), mere conception (rnam par rtog pa tsam) and mere fabrication (sgro btags pa tsam)—one that merely arises or ceases due to the force of the expressions or the conceptual linguistic convention".
But the imperial title, without power to support it, was a mere name, and with the dislocation of the Carolingian realm, culminating in the deposition of Charles the Fat by the East Frankish magnates in 887, its decline was rapid.
So when the unfortunately named Dumbo is shot down by a Congressional committee, Bird and his boss go even bigger, attempting to inflame anti-Chinese sentiment so they can sell the government on Project Taurus, a high-tech weapon system so clandestine its mere name provokes shudders.
A trolley line had run from his hometown of Wenrich Corner, near the minor-league metropolis of Alton, and then in the other direction to a town so small and rural that its mere name, Smokeville, was enough to make the boy Farnham and his flip pals laugh.
Because I am no longer practically engaged, the meaning that had previously inhabited the thing as the density of its being now stares back at me as a mere name, as something I "know" but which no longer claims me.
The mere name "American Psycho" set off a conflagration.
His mere name, Selway explained, had reduced the other members of Radiohead to a state of hushed awe.
FRIENDSHIP-CALCULUS The list of examples of Freundschaftskalkul describes "some of the zeniths and nadirs of friendship," including: The friend whose mere name prompts a smile.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose mere name once stirred calls for lifting the constitutional ban on foreign-born presidents, is facing the most difficult period of his political career.
In one letter, the climber asked her: "Can you love a shadow – a mere hand that spins lame halting words & belongs in some way to a mere name in the newspapers?
