Sentence examples for mere period from inspiring English sources

Paul Foulds argues that the work is no mere period piece.

Nothing says "80s geekdom" quite like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D to aficionados), but the game's influence goes deeper than mere period shorthand.

Although saturated with the cultural peculiarities of its time and place, this film is too alive to be a mere period piece.

But where a reader goes struggling through dense syntax in search of a verb and meets in its place a mere period, the effect can be deflating.

In other words, the early-modern wonder cabinet is no mere period piece, which is why the first half of "Devices of Wonder" contains a fully deployed and retrofitted 17th-century German Wunderkabinett.

Black Lips play a thrilling 21st-century take on the school of primitive 60s psychedelic garage rock, lovingly captured on seminal compilation albums such as Nuggets and Back from the Grave; yet protean thrashes such as Family Tree or New Direction are way too raw and visceral to be mere period pieces.

"According to the organization of our being," he observes, "we are unable to confine ourselves to the mere brief period of life allotted us in this world.

But there was nothing "mere" about this period.

Thus, meiotic analysis was completed in a mere 60-hr period from the time the cross was started.

If no specific follow-up times, but mere follow-up periods were given, a linear distribution of cases was assumed.

It's a tough call on their part". The Blackhawks, who are in the midst of a 4-11-1 4-11-1 4-11-1ed only nine slump in the final two periods and a musteredr in the third perionly