Sentence examples for seems mere from inspiring English sources

At first, this conceit, with bicep-flexing soldiers playing Guitar Hero and reading comic books, seems mere pose.

Explosives detonate — at one point, it seems, mere feet away — and sirens wail, but to the children and their caregivers a looming eviction is every bit as terrifying.

But it seems mere cussedness for him to refuse a compromise that would at least leave the possibility of a return to teaching.

His novels read like histories because their goal never seems mere entertainment, while his histories read like novels because he himself is always present in them as a protagonist telling and retelling his own story as he goes.

Yet this too is treated in multiple ways: there are moments when heterosexual intimacy seems the most touching thing in the world (one man holding one woman in his arms like a child) and others when it seems mere conformism (a pattern of men holding women in their arms like children).

Sweeping up the breathtaking Place de la Concorde, the recorded city-guide informs you cheerfully that this was the place where all the aristos had their heads chopped off; everything, from imperial conquest to violent revolution, simply seems mere grist to the mill of the endless living theatre of Paris.

That seemed mere window dressing.

From below, it seemed mere window dressing.

But such calculations are starting to seem mere nuances.

Their sons seem mere footnotes, young men more prepared to sacrifice principles for pragmatism.

The first goal, at the end of normal time, seemed mere consolation.