Sentence examples for mere setting from inspiring English sources

Sometimes all that is necessary is the mere setting of a so-called default.

But the place is also more than an austral St Tropez, a mere setting.

The mere setting of a date would not automatically mean that the players would strike.

Thus we cannot say that the mere setting aside of the shorter concurrent sentence sufficed to cure any prejudice resulting from the trial judge's failure to instruct the jury properly.

Are you going to outrace it or are you going to try to deal with it?" Perhaps the scariest houses aren't the ones that serve as a mere setting for horror, as in "The Exorcist" or "The Others," but those that are actively malevolent: houses that seem to possess their own sense of agency.

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.

Similarly, for Newman (2004), a group that is a collectivity rather than a mere set, has interests as a collectivity that are not merely the aggregated interests of its individual members.

Each dangerous place is mere set-dressing for interactive hiding, stalking and escaping.

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.