Sentence examples for mere time from inspiring English sources
And it cost him more than mere time.
Downsides such as "the butterfly effect" were swiftly dismissed as mere time travel fripperies.
What a relief to imagine our kids soaking up intellectual benefits that mere time with their parents could never provide!
But the involvement of Mr. Abrams, who was also instrumental in the artful oddness of "Lost" and "Fringe," guarantees that mere time travel is only the beginning.
All this may look like mere time wasting, but in an angry rant to reporters this week, in Florida, Ortiz insisted that he needs the time to think, and to strategize about what pitch may be coming next.
When you can dream up an idea like the Pensieve, a basin to hold one's excess thoughts until they can be dealt with at leisure, or a household clock that indicates family members' whereabouts ("home," "work," "traveling," "prison," "mortal peril") instead of the mere time, there's no excuse for falling back on the humdrum.
The watch is an interesting product category through which to examine the function of style, because mere time-telling isn't a very powerful selling point these days.
Instead, he heard, one after another, the names of mere time-servers and hack politicians and unknown cronies of the General.
Most of these amendments are mere time-wasters, stipulating, for example, that cheques may not be handed out on the floor of the House, a practice that is anyway illegal.
Only once is Skarsgard called upon to copy Furtwängler's mysterious, air-sculpting manner on the podium (he was famously scornful of mere time-beating), and only once is a piece of music adduced as evidence: Arnold puts on a record of Bruckner's Seventh — Furtwängler conducting the Adagio — and points out that it was played on Berlin radio immediately after the announcement of Hitler's death.
These are the ones that not only point beyond the deadening sequentiality of mere clock time but have the capacity to open new territories and vistas for human growth and authenticity.
