Sentence examples for mere nothing from inspiring English sources

A person who fills a place, but is of no importance or worth, a nonentity, a "mere nothing".

A Daumier lithograph showing a very fat woman in a crinoline climbing into an omnibus bore no dialogue, but simply the caption, "A mere nothing, and the bus is full".

He defined a fictitious entity as "a mere nothing" and "no proposition by which any property is ascribed to it can therefore be in itself and of itself a true one, nor therefore an instructive one".

Similarly, created things are called 'nothing' because they do not contain in themselves their principles of subsistence (Eriugena is here repeating St. Augustine's view that the creature, considered apart from God, is mere nothing).

Derham concludes: "For it is a Sign a Man is a wilful, perverse Atheist, that will impute so glorious a Work, as the Creation is, to any Thing, yea, a mere Nothing (as Chance is) rather than to God.

In addition, Louise attempted to champion her late brother-in-law by announcing that she was his confidante and that Beatrice, a mere cipher, meant nothing to him.

The props are mere representations, nothing more.

It's just a thought, a mere suggestion, nothing more.

No one should be in jeopardy of indefinite imprisonment without trial on mere suspicion; nothing excuses it, not even serious terrorist threats.

Like most folk-wisdom based rules of thumb, of course, the Redskins rule is a mere coincidence: nothing about the way that a bunch of guys throw around pigskin is actually going to impact U.S. presidential elections politics.

Mike Ross of Edmond Sun said, as Spears emotes in the song, "the message behind the music is worse than mere sweet nothings.