Sentence examples for purely an exercise from inspiring English sources

'Halloween' is purely an exercise in style.

This was to be purely an exercise in whether people can actually be private in public places and whether they expect to be.

After Casso, in an abortive attempt to reduce a life sentence for murder, told prosecutors about Eppolito and Caracappa in 1994, the next 10 years of story line are purely an exercise in proving what the unreliable Casso claimed.

In the case of Mr. Nolan's picture, however, that mood seems, as it didn't in the late 40's, purely an exercise in style: what, in the experience of the "Memento" audience, could the hero's trauma-induced amnesia possibly resonate with?

(Not that we are going to change the name. This is purely an exercise).

But you can't help thinking it about Phinney as long as you keep in mind that the "control" part is purely an exercise in creating quality.

Purely as an exercise, I recently created a planting scheme influenced by musical composition.

Other Democrats also felt uncomfortable with the shutdown being defined purely as an exercise to address the concerns of the dreamers.

Marcel produced a treatment for a TV show in which a 22nd century family were transported to prehistoric times "purely as an exercise in 'Can I write something my dad would like?'" Of course, it triggered more interest than anything she had ever written, her agent booking her a fortnight in LA pitching to American networks from out of a fleabag hotel.

Wilson designed courses on program construction, debugging, and version control, "purely as an exercise in self-defense," he says.

Promoters and terminators were randomly assigned to ORFs without consideration for potential level of expression, since all constructs described next were made purely as an exercise to demonstrate the ability of the MoClo system to clone multigene constructs.