Sentence examples for usually mere from inspiring English sources

This sense of doubleness — that what is presented as moral logic is usually mere self-sustained ritual — became essential to Montaigne's view of the world.

His protagonists are typically solitary adventurers, and his stories are usually mere clotheslines on which chance encounters and running gags are hung.

Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct"—seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).

(It's telling that many iconically creepy women — Mrs. Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct" — seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).

As many have been quick to say, it wouldn't have been allowed to happen in France, Germany or even the free market US where strategic needs are invoked to justify what is usually mere protectionism, the instinct of French economists for 400 years.

Board the boat that takes you to the whale sharks' territory, usually mere meters from shore.

On Tuesday, a sideways jump that is usually a mere transition became colossal.

Approval from the board is usually a mere formality after the search committee hands in its recommendation.

(This is known as "the Plisetskaya head-kick" after the Bolshoi ballerina who first made it phenomenal). On Tuesday, a sideways jump that is usually a mere transition became colossal.

New York streets usually offer mere glimpses into people's apartments and town houses, so it isn't every day that you walk past a storefront and realize that you're staring straight into someone's living room — and dining room and kitchen.

Unfair it may be, but I associate the staff at my library with a four-letter word beginning with F. That's right: fine – the penalty for overdue books that usually costs mere pennies, but can earn you a smidgen of righteous opprobrium.