Sentence examples for mere possibilities from inspiring English sources

All this, and much more, she had accepted, for, after all, living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.

There's a catastrophic McGuffin motivating the action and a catastrophic backstory sustaining it, but even these potential disasters are resolutely and comprehensively earthbound, belonging not to outer space or to supernatural spectres but only to the grim extremes of practical politics — and even these dangers loom as mere possibilities of horror, in no need of depiction.

MacCallum's triadic relation indicates mere possibilities.

There are alleged asymmetries of "determinateness" of reality: It is sometimes claimed that past and present have determinate reality, but that the future, being a realm of mere possibilities, has no such determinate being at all.

The fact that there might be other possible acquisition algorithms which might account for children's ability to learn language is neither here nor there; nativists are not required to argue against mere possibilities.

In a later article, however, the authors seem to have warmed to phenomenology and insist that, "an ecological account of agency should do justice to this phenomenological insight – affordances are not mere possibilities for action but generally invite us" (Withagen, Araújo, & de Poel, 2017, p. 16).

In more general terms minimalist approach looks for the mere possibility of catalysis, rather than trying to identify the most active catalyst possible.

The mere possibility makes Ms. Granholm wince.

In the meantime, the mere possibility might scare the owner into settling.

The mere possibility of risk, no matter how small, drives our behavior.

No clear connection to the Sept. 11 terrorists emerged, but the mere possibility leaves many frightened.