Sentence examples for without mere from inspiring English sources

How to describe him without mere words making him less.

But Mr. Charlap's group finally wrapped things up with about five seconds of fake chaos, which exactly embodied the quality he can do without: mere cuteness.

By the end, the author suggests that people could find ways to exploit their distributed intelligence better, without becoming mere sheep.

They dreamed of spreading democracy around the world — but did nothing to help build the democratic institutions without which mere elections were moot or worse.

The narrator's account of his own near-death experience after an exotic form of food-poisoning (based closely on Bellow's own recent brush with the reaper) seems pointless and utterly without drama: mere autobiographical data, unchanged into fiction.

God can be known, seen in everything, with your logic, but only after you know Him without demanding mere logic.

Marketed without the merest mention of the word horror, this novel packs in one terrifying surprise after another.

It is that England need to come out today without the merest hint that they are being weighed down by a touch of persecution mania.

Even long-term gainfully employed, responsible adults without the merest hint of a late-paid bill are infantilised by needing to bother their parents to underwrite tenancies.

I imagine Osman might have humoured me, but eventually vetoed this, as he was determined to make Two Tribes a regular, mainstream daytime quiz show without the merest nod to BDSM or Eighties Scouse Hi-NRG synthpop.

It's incredible that, in an era of gossip websites and messageboard rumours, one of the biggest stars in the world, presumed retired, can spend two years making a new album without the merest whisper of it reaching the public.