Sentence examples for mere naming from inspiring English sources

The intuitive assumption that mere naming should not affect underlying value is succinctly expressed in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when Juliet asks "What's in a name?

(This opening sentence also contains the book's only reference to a particular woman, Jane, who is responsible for the disappearance of the hundredth brother. It's as if, according to the novel's logic, the mere naming of a significant other is enough to exclude a brother from the narrative).

Whose mere names evoke each age.

The friend whose mere name prompts a smile.

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.

Now he "earns nothing", has two children to raise and is remembered by many as a mere name in history.

More skeptical philosophers denied the reality of universals altogether, some identifying them with thoughts (conceptualists), others with mere names (nominalists).

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan -- all these were mere names, rarely attached to any helpful grasp of these nations' geography or history.

What it clearly does need, though, is a much simpler voting system, so that mere name-recognition is no longer such a crucial determinant of who gets elected.

To distinguish them from the present case is not to rely upon any principle, but upon the mere name or label given to a tax.