Sentence examples for merely white from inspiring English sources

While such crumbs can be the very foundation of a factual narrative, in the hands of a journo-turned-novelist they can be merely white noise.

THE New York undercurrent that runs throughout the Litchfield County village of New Preston is merely white noise to Brooke Hayward Duchin, much like the waterfall that cascades below her 19th-century mill house on the East Aspetuck River.

As the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) points out: "Efficient borders will provide value for money when they are facilitating more trade; efficient borders with no trade will be merely white elephants".

And what should be done about students who skip the race question altogether — a sizable number of whom, some studies have shown, are white, and do so either in protest or out of fear that identifying as merely white could hurt rather than help their chances in this new environment?

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech, but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.

Digital halftoning is the process that decides how to manipulate the dots of a halftone image that consists of merely white and black dots.

The problems were caused not merely by white racism, he argued, but also weak family structure.

That may be true, but so is this: Pigeons are doves; they are merely the white variety's darker cousins.

A Web site called Did the Cavs Win Last Night? was merely a white background with the word "No" in black type — until after Friday's game.

In Sembene's view, a corrupt system merely replaced white dictators and profiteers with black ones; the symbolic ending, a glimmer of revolutionary hope, is as morally gratifying as it is implausible.

Producers may well have wanted to acknowledge the importance of black culture to American life and have thought they were doing something meritorious by merely showing white and black performers together.