Sentence examples for mere personal from inspiring English sources

Nor was this a mere personal perception.

His health is no mere personal matter.

The selfless excuse of nobility is a more terrible temptation than mere personal ambition.

But the Palestinian leader's rejection of major Israeli concessions was not mere personal stubbornness.

Gone were references to conservation as a mere "personal virtue" with no place in sound public policy.

But what is at stake here is not mere personal privacy, but the bedrock American principles of separation of powers and the rule of law.

The walls are lined with posters of the actor's films -- "The Ice Storm," "The Cider House Rules," "Wonder Boys," "Spider-Man" -- but his own corner office is devoid of the merest personal touch: just an iMac and a phone on a desk, a few boxes and a couple of chairs.

His aesthetic of no aesthetic, with its deceptively unvarnished depiction of staged events, flatters critics and viewers into thinking of their movie-viewing as no mere frivolous personal pleasure but as a constructive facet of progress.

Even mere rumors of personal transgressions are circulated now.

But Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and administration officials waved aside pleas for a price ceiling.

Remember that Mr. Cheney sneeringly dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and was scathing about people who thought price controls would help.