Sentence examples for mere points of from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Siskind's, Mr. Kurtág's and Mr. Amy's work's, similarly, the glances backward were mere points of philosophical departure.

An array of laser-based infrared telescopes he built at the Mount Wilson observatory outside Los Angeles can measure the diameter of stars that appear as mere points of light in most telescopes.

But these are mere points of departure, from which he takes off, and to which he returns, having in the meantime illuminated, with earthy erudition, one facet or another of London that he has identified as a constant.

Cambridge, MA--To the casual observer, stars appear as mere points of light in the night sky, but thanks to new pictures and spectra of the star Betelgeuse's surface taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers are now learning what violent and fascinating objects stars can be.

The dynamic sequence--which spans about 8 months--has thrilled astrophysicists accustomed to static snapshots or mere points of light.

Except for a few notable exceptions, nearly all stars appear as mere points of light because their distance simply precludes our current capabilities from seeing otherwise.

The words are mere point of departure for a majestic vocal narrative progression he's invented.

As of 2011, Jean-Marie Le Pen's speeches had led to 18 convictions, five for repeating that the Holocaust was a mere "point of detail" of the second world war.

From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera.

This isn't a mere point of logic.

Friedmann also calculated the time back to the moment when an expanding universe would have been a mere point, obtaining tens of billions of years; but it is not clear how much physical significance he attributed to this speculation.