Sentence examples for mere piles of from inspiring English sources
And these mounds are not mere piles of earth.
A minute's walk from the wreckage of the grocery store, television news trucks shine their spotlights and point their cameras at houses on southwest Sixth Street that are now mere piles of wood.
Their oversized nests are mere piles of rotting seaweed, but seem luxurious compared with those of the kittiwakes and razorbills on the precipitous rockface above – mere toeholds in the cliff, streaked with guano.
"Is it unreasonable to ask for organization and simplicity of purpose to all that concrete and glass?" he asked of airports, calling for smarter "big picture" planning focused on a "fully integrated model" incorporating the "entire surrounding transportation infrastructure," rather than the mere "piling on" of more runways.
This impression is reinforced by the lengthy set pieces -- like the descriptions of the French Foreign Ministry at the Quai d'Orsay and St. Peter's Square -- that at their least controlled degenerate into a mere piling of detail upon detail.
Luhrmann and his script collaborator, Craig Pearce, must have thought that the mere piling up of sources would produce a thick-textured referential masterpiece, as if one could forge a jewelled dagger out of a bunch of plastic reproductions.
Although he assured himself a second straight Ballon d'Or with three goals in the semi-final and final of last year's Champions League, all of them were mere pile-ons.
Our complex identities were reduced to numbers and statistics, mere pieces of paper in an immense pile.
Piles and piles of shoes.
