Sentence examples for mere sake from inspiring English sources

There is also an obsession with "original" for the mere sake of it, as though original is automatically good, and original often involves some level of irony and gimmick.

We understand your anger and disillusionment with a system that feeds lies to its citizens, that encourages allegiance to a lesser intelligence for the mere sake of "business as usual", that murders more than dreams, but the dreamers themselves.

In other words, it is not to be presumed that the legislature was legislating for the mere sake of imposing penalties, but the penalties, and the provision as to evidence, were simply in aid of the main purpose of the statute.

It is disingenuous for those in the media to defend their "entitlement" to free speech for the mere sake of it and to rail against a concept that might render their gratuitous attacks on the powerless and voiceless, as socially unacceptable.

Polidori recorded the gist of it in his diary: Shelley had "gone through much misery, thinking he was dying; married a girl for the mere sake of letting her have the jointure that would accrue to her; recovered; found he could not agree; separated; paid Godwin's debts, and seduced his daughter; then wondered that he would not see him..."...

The leveraging of the game's narrative structure against its ludic structure all but destroys the player's ability to feel connected to either, forcing the player to either abandon the game in protest (which I almost did) or simply accept that the game cannot be enjoyed as both a game and a story, and to then finish it for the mere sake of finishing it.

It is to be noted that such a generalization is more essential for a realistic analysis of particulate systems than for the sake of mere completeness.

The polis "grows for the sake of mere life," he wrote, "but it exists for the sake of a good life".

Also, we demonstrate how resulting curation measures can be fitted to the Weibull and other statistical models, not for the sake of mere mathematical virtuosity but to compare curation rate and implicate different failure processes between data sets.

He had more opinions than he knew how to organize, which made self-contradiction inevitable, and he did not believe in keeping his opinions down for the sake of mere consistency.

The polis "grows for the sake of mere life," he wrote, "but it exists for the sake of a good life". This did not mean that democracy was the best form of government; on the contrary, Aristotle classified democracy as a corrupt version of politics, in which the resentful many claim power to expropriate the wealthy few.