Sentence examples for mere shapes from inspiring English sources

Yet somehow, out of mere shapes and shadows made of electrons and pixels, television has sent us messages that we have moulded into meaning.

The minimalist logo design, where companies are recognized by mere shapes, is now seen across the board, such as Instagram's new logo, released on Wednesday of this week.

In the face of life-changing technology, after all, what's in a mere shape?

Hence, bariatric surgery is more than a mere medical intervention shaping biological bodies – it shapes and is shaped by culture.

The boroughs were rendered as reductive abstract shapes, mere background shadows enabling the brightly colored bars used to delineate the respective subway lines to stand out.

It is hard to gauge how much Mr. Brown's mere presence may shape his neighbors' lives.

Languages seem so vastly different from one another, but for Chomskyans this is a mere matter of word shapes; in terms of how we put the words together, languages are all minor variations on a single universal grammar — the one underlying that jumping-He-on-the-tree phenomenon.

Their swooping, liquid movements are the result of techniques that trace a muscular process as it passes through the body: here, balletic form is visible but the steps themselves are not, as if their dynamics have been erased, leaving mere vestiges of their shapes.

Narrative fragments and images and names come spooling out: The city is unfixed, its formal maps Are mere mnemonics where each shape repeats Its name before some ultimate collapse.

For any strong director (one who's no mere hired hand), the shaping of the story, the casting, the creation and approval of sets and props, the details of costume and makeup, the sound design — in short, the movie's over-all tone and style sense — are the director's indirect handiwork.

In Normandy, President Obama explained that "our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance.