"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "What a pretty boy," she thought to herself, innocently and instinctively trying to ward off the power to hold and draw her that lay behind the mere prettiness.
- Her features were delicate, but there was a look of determination about her that saved her from mere prettiness.
- Her head, truly charming, was of the purest Sclavonic type-- slightly severe, and likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather than mere prettiness.
- At its most superficial "Giselle," which had its premiere in Paris in 1841, can degenerate into mere prettiness.
- It was more than mere prettiness, he decided, now that he was taking a good look at her.
- It's often said that flowers count for less and less the longer one gardens; so, I would add, does mere prettiness.
- The kind of beauty that sneaks up on you, that you assumed was mere prettiness.
- And a woman who before looked flawlessly, blandly attractive acquires the intriguing, disruptive imperfection that distinguishes beauty from mere prettiness.
- There was something more than mere prettiness in Polly's face, though Tom had not learned to see it yet.
- His satinwood table-tops, china cabinets and side-tables are the last word in a daintiness which here and there perhaps is mere prettiness.
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