Sentence examples for mere set of from inspiring English sources
But it wasn't a mere set of trading and institutional arrangements either.
Scored for flute, clarinet, two vibraphones, two pianos, string quartet and electric bass, this is no mere set of variations.
In this film, as in all of Lanzmann's works, the past is no mere set of inert facts; there's no easy access to the past.
Law is not law unless it is enforceable, & the "law" of warfar are in their very nature unenvordeable, being a mere set of rules for quarrelling.
The composer Dennis DeSantis, for instance, in a manifesto on notation, writes: In this view, the score is essentially a mere set of instructions with no intrinsic artistic merit.
Thus, the Enuma elish, the Babylonian creation epic, was discovered to be no mere set of stories but rather a mythic drama re-enacted every year at the spring festival, at which time the foundation of the world is ritually renewed.
The mere setting of a date would not automatically mean that the players would strike.
Richer in character than Superman's Metropolis (a near neighbour in the DC universe), this dark nest of crime, corruption and villainry has long been more than a mere setting for Batman and deserving of its short-lived spin-off comic, Gotham Central.
Nearly two decades ago, in "The Child as Poet: Myth or Reality," the children's poet Myra Cohn Livingston (who died in 1996) eloquently refuted the notion that children are natural poets, and that the mere setting down of thoughts, images, or impressions at the prompting of adult instructors produces true poetry.
Set among the high society of late 19th century New York, the food in The Age of Innocence is more than mere set dressing.
She observes along the way that an early draft of one of her novels relied on a narrator who was a mere disembodied set of eyes and ears until her editor prodded her to endow the character with a coherent self, and that she has always been "aware of how much more responsive to my context I tended to be than many of my peers".
