Sentence examples for the mere construction from inspiring English sources

When this activity was first introduced, undue importance was often placed upon the mere construction of figures according to certain set methods and upon the painstaking preparation of a showing, so that the creative release of the performance was long delayed and sometimes never reached.

Even aside from these tuning details, the mere construction of a subject domain theory is a complex and error-prone task.

The mere building of a room does not build it for the camera, and this should be the aim of all construction.

In the preface to Bodies that Matter Butler reports a common response to her work: "What about the materiality of the body, Judy? … an effort … to recall me to a bodily life that could not be theorised away … for surely bodies live and eat; eat and sleep; feel pain and pleasure; endure illness and violence; and these facts … cannot be dismissed as mere construction" (1993 ix).

Stumpf argues rather that Kant's synthetic judgments presuppose a kind of "mental machinery" (Stumpf, 2008, Bogen 16 3) in order to account for their formation, as they involve numerous assumptions, notably the a priori forms of sensibility, intuition, and the Denkformen, which Stumpf takes to be mere constructions.

It's a story to savor in the mere telling, a melodramatic construction that virtually sings with the breadth of experience and history that it brings to bear on Eilis's voyages and Eilis's dilemma.

What remains is a language of restrained gesture and whispered hints -- the back of a traffic sign, the edge of an overturned construction cone, the mere suspicion of a horizon line.

While the U.S. and Britain were on friendly terms, and the construction of such a canal was decades away from reality, the mere possibility put the two nations in an uneasy position.

The mere threat of an indictment forces a negotiation which can lead to an entire new construction of law.So how does a legal process without an open trial operate?

You have the peel, the mere skin.

The mere proposal seemed a reward.