Sentence examples for mere variety from inspiring English sources

The now-typical temperament is not a disease, but a mere variety within the capacious normal range of functioning, and would likely remain so even in a future society of 5-HTTLPR-enhanced people.

The most damning word the brothers use about each other is "ordinary": at one point Homer suggests Langley is becoming a mere "garden variety neurotic" and he looks to the audience and claims: "No matter what you say, our life is better than yours".

Rather, the plan will instruct federal prosecutors to stop hitting mere garden variety drug dealers with "excessive" prison terms and start handing out sentences more appropriately suited "to their individual conduct," according to excerpts from Holder's prepared remarks this afternoon at the American Bar Association in San Francisco.

However, the mere diversity of normative ELSA literature gives little support to these as being dominant varieties.

Meanwhile, he graduated from a mere garden-variety billionaire to possibly the richest person in New York.

When the courtesan Bianca (Elizabeth Aspenlieder) anxiously grills the handsome Cassio (LeRoy McClain) about the other women in his life, this is mere garden-variety jealousy.

Barbara Kahn, a Wharton professor of marketing who has studied consumer choice and variety-seeking, conducted a jelly bean experiment to show that the mere perception of variety in foods causes people to eat more.

So when we catch a running joke we see the mechanical human behaviour behind the mere surface of variety.

A mere 10 language-varieties are reported to occupy over 80% of the internet (Crystal 2011).

We argue that, decades later, in our radically different political context any critical endeavour that relies heavily on Foucault's analytics of power should carefully re-examine its political strategy, or risk becoming 'at its last gasp' mere scholarship of a variety once castigated by Nietzsche (1998a[1886]: VI § 204).

On Midgard (Earth to us mere mortals), Thor tries a variety of occupations.