Sentence examples for mere uses from inspiring English sources

For him, the making of this monument went beyond mere uses; it was almost "too good for its purpose," he said.

Such beauty instructs us in its own perfection for it is beyond mere "use" — no _work- _ _cats, watch-cats, _ _plebeian beings _ but each descended of gods as ancient Egypt honored; and how like a deity, to sink teeth into a rat, a creature that squeamish mankind abhors, while maintaining purest Cat- innocence.

Such beauty instructs us in its own perfection for it is beyond mere "use" — no work- cats, watch-cats, plebeian beings but each descended of gods as ancient Egypt honored; and how like a deity, to sink teeth into a rat, a creature that squeamish mankind abhors, while maintaining purest Cat- innocence.

However, as an active element of knowledge Fleck indicates also "the mere use of alcohol in preparing extracts", adding however that "the actual usefulness of such extracts is a passive one and therefore a necessary consequence".

The mere use of a person's Christian name is electric.

For Ms. Mayzler, the mere use of the word "orientation" was a revelation.

Conceptual art was not encouraged; "the mere use of the word 'conceptual' implied a violence to that universe," she said.

The mere use of a name gave Clark access to a world that otherwise would have been inaccessible to him.

Oddly enough, however, the mere use of a proper name often creates an electrical short in our neural circuitry.

Indeed, the mere use of the word is enough to send the senator and his advisers into a full-blown tizzy.

They are too intensely beautiful for any such mere use, but they pointedly sacrifice the strict autonomy that had been a ruling principle in modern painting since Cézanne.