Sentence examples for mere story from inspiring English sources

Finally, an American presidential campaign isn't just "a reality show" or even a mere "story".

It is surreal and meaningless to see you as a mere story on The New York Times, a brief glimpse at a life with none of the detail.

Just as a person's life is much more to them than a mere story, so true objectivity is all but impossible in narrative journalism.

Missing from the recipe was the kind of inspiration or innovation that can transform a novel from a mere story acted out onstage into a vital and organic theatrical experience.

Better still, each character is presented with some background or social environment which brings the child nearer to the understanding of historical problems than the mere story.

Have we reached a point where devotion to instrumental reason is so maniacal we can't handle mere stories anymore?

But Mr. Cameron, who directed the megamelodrama "Titanic" and, more notably, several of the most influential science-fiction films of the past few decades ("The Terminator," "Aliens" and "The Abyss"), is a filmmaker whose ambitions transcend a single movie or mere stories to embrace cinema as an art, as a social experience and a shamanistic ritual, one still capable of producing the big WOW.

While one might want to dismiss these cases as mere stories, primatologist Frans de Waal (1996b, 2005) defends their significance in the context of similar, more systematic observations of sympathy among primates in captivity and in the wild (both episodes were recorded on home video).

This is no mere news story.

Plainly, he never set out to write a mere short story.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores, however, never seems to extend beyond the mere smutty story.