In other words, Baron Cohen, like Lenny Bruce, who was always willing to turn the tables on his hip, educated fans, is not a nice boy. Bruce railed against injustice and hypocrisy, but he also teased liberal do-goodism, which he thought mere sentimentality.
Government surveys find that 87% of whites, and 91% of ethnic minorities, say people from different backgrounds get on well together in their neighbourhood up substantially from ten years ago.Lest this be thought mere political correctness, behaviour has changed just as much.
In organic chemistry, by contrast, he thought mere memorization played less of a role: "If you memorize your reactions it's not gonna be you don't know how to string them together.
Yet these, I think, are mere distractions, a set of stock and brutish archetypes.
You may think a mere glimpse of a piece of territory still cut off by barbed wire would be rather depressing.
It has, after all, never happened before, but you'd think the mere good fortune of being English might have left them better prepared.
It is baffling that anyone would think that mere regime and policy changes could improve the conditions in jails, communities, or in the country at large.
I think the mere fact that this drivel was published in a mainstream newspaper shows that there is a problem with the hatred of Muslims in this country.
And — and so, I think the mere fact that the stock went to some lower price is not reason to — to dilute the — to dilute the equity in a substantial way, you know, at this time.
We should be allowed to call ourselves whatever we want but I think the mere existence and use of feminised descriptions of entrepreneurship fuels the perception that entrepreneurial activity is a largely male preserve.
