"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance, within society, of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion, which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity.
- Curiously enough it was he himself who suggested lunacy and not mere eccentricity as the secret of his strange conduct.
- The surprising contentions she attacks might have been ignored at another time as mere eccentricities.
- But Spock had suggested there was more to the lack of inlbrmation about Cochrane's final years than could be explained by mere human eccentricity and a desire for privacy.
- Only a noble addled far P] mere eccentricity would have thought learning to till the soil in the I worthwhile.
- Don't imagine this is a mere eccentricity of the famously geeky Rudd: it is a shared national obsession, as evidenced by the prime minister, Julia Gillard, having discussed it with Barack Obama earlier this year.
- The combination of material splendor and asceticism that characterizes Tura's art was not mere eccentricity but the hallmark of an aristocratic court wrapping itself in the mantle of religion in order to protect its position.
- If departures such as these fail to influence the world around them, they are likely to be dismissed as mere eccentricities, and soon forgotten.
- The author's voice, or self-consciousness about voice, substitutes mere eccentricity for an imaginative surrender to another life.
- Moreover, what is the illness-is it simply the development of a personality that is several steps beyond mere eccentricity, and that steps into areas society does not find itself able to tolerate or approve?
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