Sentence examples for turn mere from inspiring English sources

Fisher showed how such a spiral could turn mere busts into depressions.

Navalny has also managed to turn mere supporters into fellow-fighters.

It can also have the tendency to turn mere men into gods.

The only way to unseat Mr. Obama, he seems to have decided, is to turn mere disappointment into electoral fury.

And her mad scene was quite wonderful, with the excitement and beauty in the singing to turn mere technical adroitness into a blaze of fireworks that sent showers of sparks into the audience.

And even if a large percentage of those opinions were positive and supportive, who could help but dwell on the ones that say, in reality or effect, "You suck!" Granted, Chipper Jones must have heard similar things coming from the stands in the old Shea Stadium or Veterans Stadium, but the Web can turn mere mortal fans into minor monsters.

But his performance slowly acquires depth, turning mere loutishness into a radiant, highly affecting innocence.

Then came this art-industrial frenzy, which turns mere art lovers into gawking street urchins.

But at the end of the song, Fink transcended this expressive world, turning mere happiness into ecstatic rapture.

The sheer power of the notes her lungs expelled turned mere singing into an emotional tempest, huffing and puffing until she blew the house down.

Poets are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world," Shelley proclaimed; they're capable, Wordsworth mused, of turning mere mortals into "heirs of truth and pure delight".