Sentence examples for mere style from inspiring English sources

But the affinity with Eliot goes deeper than mere style.

But the episode was revealing for reasons that go deeper than mere style.

But disco was more than just a fad, or even a mere style of music.

But a real understanding of language acknowledges which rules are truly ironclad, which ones are in dispute and which ones are mere style choices.

The difference between mere style and form or what converts style to form is the striving toward wisdom, the understanding of the practicalities of life that the art work conveys.

The problem (and I write this in the knowledge that many of these columns bang on about there being much more to design than mere style) was that they looked dreadful — fiddly, fussy, overwrought and, at worst, downright ugly.

His verbal style is no mere way of performing; it's his very way of being.

Orbital's mission controllers wore, as a joke, 1960s-style shirts during the launch, but the firm's connection to the past runs deeper than mere fashion, for the shirt style was of an age with the engines in the failed rocket itself.In the mid-1990s, a contractor Orbital works with bought a job lot of rocket motors built for the N1, the Soviet Union's entry in the race to put a man on the Moon.

Although Snowdon cautions that chimps and marmosets have many more differences than mere breeding style, he says that this research "suggests that social structure and social organization might be more important for organizing altruistic behavior than brain size".

But the Palestinians must be given a proper state of their own – a single state would become a mere apartheid-style parody of democracy with two classes of citizen.

Now, if you want your characters to live in this way, you have at least to give the impression that your tale is a true drama (ie driven by the characters' desires) rather than a mere soap-style storyline, where "motivation" is made up as the plot demands.