Others were mere children.
People have compared Harper to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, but those players were mere children to Shirley, and he would be able to make an accurate and well-reasoned assessment without having to go to the videotape to do it.
For Cuba's young people, many of whom were mere children when he retired, Fidel was already an obscure totem, a grandfather figure given to making pronouncements about issues that had little to do with their lives.
Today, when thousands of Chinese students rattle through the Études as if they were mere child's playthings, it is perhaps better for the music that our picture of the man retains something of its full poetic flavour.
Despite their conflicts, a few years before his death O'Reilly wrote that, compared with Bradman, batsmen like Greg Chappell and Allan Border were mere "child's play".
Some of their soldiers are mere children.
These three, all of them around 70, are among the grand old men of modern European cinema (though they are mere children compared with Mr. Oliveira, who is 92), and their presence evokes the festivals of an earlier era.
In Houellebecq's Islamicized society, men are deemed adults by virtue of their access to income, while women, restricted to the unpaid domestic work of keeping those men fed, clothed and sexually satisfied, are mere children.
And, in one particular year, we never got out at all". In a more conventional home setting, the reenactments could have been mere child's play.
Such voluptuous nubility is mere child's play, though, compared to the power games of Punta's celeb culture.
But I can attest, as the owner of a retriever widely regarded as the world's worst dog, that Scout's antics are mere child's play.
