This mirror-thing, instead of merely reflecting images, takes the image and makes it look like a painting.
As "merely an image," he is prone to waywardness and disaster.
His fair amorata, delectable wriggly worms, fountains of water and/or youth or merely an image of himself?
It's a strange notion, this: digitisation has become so comprehensive and penetrating it is now able to express the fundamental categories within which we perceive reality itself – but of course this is merely an image, like any other.
What makes "Prime Time Love" such a hoot isn't merely the image of a grown man too lazy to walk to the kitchen, but also the even more preposterous idea that someone married to the one person ever to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series would expect an equitable division of household labor.
The display acts as a diffraction grating (diffraction is a well-established technique for splitting light beams), and because the grating is merely an image, both it and the paths of the daughter-beams it generates can be manipulated at will.In this section A canary in the coal mine Seeds of change Out of this world ReprintsSorting semen is an ideal task for such a device.
To have a (merely) mental image is to have a perception-like experience triggered by something other than the appropriate external stimulus; so, for example, one might have "a picture in the mind's eye or … a tune running through one's head" (Strawson 1970, 31) in the absence of any corresponding visual or auditory object or event.
It's merely an image of the heat of your body.
Likewise, most digital cameras merely capture images.
In "The Hurt Locker," there are no wasted shots or merely beautiful images.
It is possible to draw too sharp a boundary between prophetic and merely symbolic images, between mad vision and coded cartoon.
