From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Wilhelm Dilthey
When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
Beth Ditto
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
George Farquhar
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.
John W. Foster
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Annette Funicello
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
Walt Kelly
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
Imre Lakatos