Sentence examples for mere representation from inspiring English sources

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation".

Howls for Sade, his first movie, certainly was not "mere representation".

Even what seem at first to be straightforwardly descriptive pieces are never content with mere representation.

This is not a mere representation of the student work at the Yale School of Architecture.

The Parisian situationist Guy Debord once wrote: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

"Perhaps, all expression of arts are a mere representation of humans' own inner workings to the outside world," Buehler writes.

The props are mere representations, nothing more.

The people of Trapani and the Oxford campaigners are both making explicit a feeling we seem to share – a belief that statues are more than mere representations.

While he was at a loss what course to take in this affair, the soldiers were reduced to great distress; but Caius went from one city to another, and by his mere representations he prevailed with them, that of their own accord they clothed the Roman army.

The habit of feeling pleasure or pain at mere representations is not far removed from the same feeling about realities; for example, if any one delights in the sight of a statue for its beauty only, it necessarily follows that the sight of the original will be pleasant to him.

In this system, they insist, flows of desire have become mere representations of desire, cut off from the body without organs and the extra-familial mechanisms of society.