FROM the ground, the edifice does not seem very imposing: it is a mere bundle of twigs and grass crammed on one of the light poles lining Brooklyn College's athletic field.

We must produce an organism which shall be no mere bundle of relics left over from its primitive ancestors and precariously ruled by a glimmer of intelligence.

In another minute Tommy was a mere helpless bundle.

"No mere thoughtless bundle of reactions, and no apologist, but the true son of moral certainty."

And Theo, well, Theo's still a mere bundle of bodily functions and squirmy demands.

I could not shout, I could not move; I was a mere bundle.

I'm becoming a mere bundle of quivering ganglions.

As both sides in the debate agree, marriage is something more than a mere bundle of legal rights.

Overall, however, Newman delivers a more positive judgement: "[Puccini's] operas are to some extent a mere bundle of tricks, but no one else has performed the same tricks nearly as well".

There she lay in the mortuary shell, so starved and emaciated that she was a mere bundle of skin and bones.