"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Occasionally, the intensity of these dream states is so incandescent as to hint at more than mere metaphor.
- For a runaway slave, that exhortation was no mere romantic metaphor but a coded message leading to freedom.
- To call the historical society the city's attic was no mere metaphor, but a description of the level of care given many of its possessions.
- I have never seen a man so utterly humiliated and destroyed by "mere" metaphor before or since.
- It is indeed mere metaphor to talk of the eloquence of mute nature, or the language of winds and waves.
- But at a deeper level Lewis wanted to make it plain that talking in this way was not mere metaphor.
- Are all these tales mere metaphor, or is something supernatural controlling our musical impulses?
- They are the foot soldier using a musket, appears rarely, if at all, in earlier writings, unless as a mere metaphor.
- In this novel, of course, I portray Gaia as more than a mere metaphor.
- In Christian theology the word must be a personal and a proper name of God; hence it cannot be dismissed as mere metaphor.
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