Sentence examples for the mere utterance from inspiring English sources

The mere utterance of that phrase is enough to send a shiver down the spines of "hardcore" console players.

In an 1878 essay, Edison (or his ghostwriter) proclaimed portentously that his invention would "annihilate time and space, and bottle up for posterity the mere utterance of man".

At the height of his bardic powers, Allen Ginsberg could terrify the authorities with the mere utterance of the syllable "om" as he led street throngs of citizens protesting the Vietnam War.

And these days, the mere utterance of the name "Oscar" is enough to rankle the neighbors on Park Avenue, who may love to wear de la Renta but do not necessarily want his runways in their backyard.

By "saying," Grice meant not the mere utterance of words, but saying that something is the case, an illocutionary speech act like stating but more general.

The mere utterance of these words can make a small business owner ecstatic or apoplectic -- all depending on their experience with this increasingly popular administrative help.

A mere utterance of the word and most layman get suspicious.

No mere utterance, then or now, could do justice to the soaring heights of language Mr Lincoln reached that day.

Sorry to inform you, but your naked conclusory accusations do not prove themselves by their mere utterance.

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance.

There is no phrase which by its mere utterance will cure a bereaved person.