Sentence examples for says mere from inspiring English sources

Because they lack not only power but also consciousness and will, bodies are even further removed from real agency and hence are, as Edwards says, mere shadows of being).

When I. B. Singer, in his Nobel address, declared that the novelist's first responsibility is to be a storyteller, he didn't say "mere storyteller," and Schulz didn't say "merely make people laugh".

Sometimes, he said, mere silence works best.

He gave an example: "Corporations are often present in many countries, and it would reach too far to say mere corporate presence suffices".

"In recent years in Egypt," the Times said, "mere questioning about a novel's content by any religious faction is usually sufficient grounds to get it banned".

— the judge said "mere mortals don't know what a trading desk is" — both sides dove into descriptions of residential mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps.

Dr. Gerald Finerman, the chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at U.C.L.A., said mere rest would not help a torn labrum in the hip.

Postscript: So, as I was saying, mere longevity was never the source of Derek Jeter's heroism, and the drawn-out attention to his pursuit of a milestone already eclipsed by twenty-seven other players was seeming a little excessive.

Nevertheless, in the panel decision, the Court said mere implementation on a computer of an otherwise abstract idea will not render an invention patent-eligible subject matter.

Cliff said mere economic advantage wasn't a medieval concept.

Unbelievably, Dwight Howard then tries to deny what his head coach had said mere minutes earlier.