Sentence examples for things mere from inspiring English sources

An artist who could unlock any defence, score any kind of goal and visualise things mere mortals couldn't, he was probably the finest player in the world between 1992 and 1995.

That means that the whole edifice of culture and politics rested on the labour of men and women who by "right" of purchase or conquest had become mere things, mere domestic, agricultural, or mining equipment, and whose presence in Classical Attica rose into the tens of thousands.

That was their second successive finish of 21st in the bottom division, the lowest in their history, but in the scheme of things mere poor results on the pitch and the threat of relegation were small fry compared with what had come before.

Is the world driven purely by matter and the laws of nature, or are those things mere embodiments of another, immaterial, intelligent aspect of the universe?" (p. 125).

They are not things, mere cells in the form of a sheep or cow, to be stuffed and transported to slaughter.

Zimmerman (2008), for instance, objects to (P1) by noting that the rationale for the claim that a human animal is located where you are—in effect, that it is just obvious that there is an instance of the species Homo sapiens currently located where you are—extends equally to such things as "mere hunk of matter", "mere body", "psychological person", and the like.

As a Neoplatonic Idealist, he emphasized that thoughts comprise reality, while concrete "things" are mere appearances.

People like that can do things that mere mortals can only envy.

I admit there's always a temptation to take things beyond mere memory.

He had more important things than mere fatherhood on his mind: the governorship of California, for a start.

These things, these mere artifacts, these youthful slops, they are not me," adding, "there is no 'author,' so-called".