It's probably the case that I need treatment of some sort, but I'm not going to take it.' His eyes betray the merest signs of moistness, but signs none the less.
"If the lines of a drawing don't convey this harassment the drawing remains a mere sign".
But Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and administration officials waved aside pleas for a price ceiling.
Remember that Mr. Cheney sneeringly dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and was scathing about people who thought price controls would help.
Along the way, Mr. Cheney sneeringly dismissed energy conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue" and scorned California officials who called for price controls and said the crisis was being exacerbated by market manipulation.
This was the same administration, after all, that wanted to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and that, in the person of Vice President Dick Cheney, had dismissed the idea that conservation could help reduce the nation's energy needs, contemptuously dismissing it as a mere "sign of personal virtue".
(Mikyö Dorje 2006: 273) Therefore conventional truth is "one that is devoid of an intrinsic reality, rather it is mere name (ming tsam), mere sign (rda tsam), mere linguistic convention (tha snyad tsam), mere conception (rnam par rtog pa tsam) and mere fabrication (sgro btags pa tsam)—one that merely arises or ceases due to the force of the expressions or the conceptual linguistic convention".
It is now the mental or interior word (verbum interius), i.e., the mental concept, that is considered as word in its most proper sense, whereas the spoken word appears as a mere sign or voice of the word (signum verbi, vox verbi) (Augustine, De Trinitate XV 11 20, 1968, 486f)..[11] Thoughts (cogitationes) are performed in mental words.
But this was just a mere sign of things to come as the corporate giant began its slow but steady intrusion into Kunkletown.
