Sentence examples for mere picture from inspiring English sources

I have always felt that there is more to Tintin than mere picture stories for kids.

… (1938)—were programmatic features made for Republic, which was considered a mere picture mill among film studios, illustrating how far his once-lofty stature had slipped.

——."'Something More than a Mere Picture Show': Charles Urban and the Early Non-Fiction Film in Great Britain and America, 1897 1925". Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London, 2003.

But this set of enhanced CD's is no mere picture gallery of opera's most popular -- and, thanks to their recent spat with the Metropolitan Opera, newly notorious -- married couple.

Some even aspire to be more than mere picture shows and prefer to be thought of as information appliances.

Even a mere picture with the girls  comes at a price.

Smith was, Robertson wrote, "a true visionary", uncompromising, and "refusing to make concessions to tastefulness, or mere picture-making".

This is where their familiarity departs from being mere pictures of things as we know them.

Profoundly (almost impossibly) beautiful, this island in the Semporna archipelago, is betrayed by mere pictures and words.

We are not seeing mere pictures of people, but a trace of the people themselves, as they looked in life.

With electronic books — a technology teeming with children's titles, many of them stunningly rendered for the Apple iPad — mere pictures and conversations are passé, at least pictures that don't move and conversations that you can't hear.