Sentence examples for mere sound from inspiring English sources

Words become mere sound again.

But to trophy hunters, the mere sound of grand names is sweet music.

Even the mere sound of women's voices is used as an excuse to dismiss women.

And this is where mere sound planning passed into the realm of the incredibly opportune.

Many liberals, though, will want concrete promises on policy rather than mere sound bites.

No mere sound effect, it is intrinsic to the score, and all the more chilling for it.

There is something magical in the power of flat pictures to depict a diverse universe, as also in the power of mere sounds to express events.

Thus Cratylus has attributed to him by Plato the thesis that each thing has its own proper name, which expresses, through its etymology, the nature of the things it names, and which has significance only when correctly applied, but is otherwise a mere empty sound.

However, popular news coverage of bioethical quandaries often reduces complex issues to mere inflammatory sound bites.

All the hooks in the song were worked up to their finished state, but most of the verses were unfinished, often mere vowel sounds.

To be a mere treasurer sounds staid, something out of the old economy, compared with the modern ring of chief financial officer.