Sentence examples for of the mere from inspiring English sources

'Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer,' he wrote.

(To say nothing of Henry's glib opening: "Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer").

When this works, it imitates the desired exactitude of a detective's account of the mere facts of a case.

"It is closer to snatching a breath upon surfacing, as though song were of the mere air it sounds in".

But these were not the words of the mere technocrat many claim is now occupying the White House.

Oxygen-limiting conditions in the biofilm reactor were determined by the DO/TAN concentrations ratio, instead of the mere DO concentration.

Therefore, this study investigated the effects of the mere presence of an instructor in a video example on attention allocation and learning.

A publication of the mere opinions of the court, in a volume, without more, would be comparatively valueless to any one.

Gray and solemn, bowed under robes representing the highest honors of Academia, he had the look of Oxford or Cambridge and not of the mere New World.

For Vachaspati, creation was viewed in terms of the mere presence of the selves and the mere presentation to them of Matter (the undifferentiated primeval stuff).

Hence the reference is obviously to Aristotle's distinction between knowledge of the ground or explanation of something and knowledge of the mere fact.