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Meanings of mere surface in English
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Usage of mere surface in English
1
The seeming illogicality of woman is of course a mere surface illusion.
2
Even to you, I filled my first sheet with mere surface matter.
3
But it is something much more than a mere surface quality.
4
Generally they are mere surface cracks, a hundred feet deep at the outside.
5
She was a mere surface- athrillinglybeautiful surface, but not a full-fledgedwoman.
6
Like all similar features in the low country, it is a mere surface drain.
7
His stream of intellect is too small to bear expansion-itspreads into mere surface.
8
He need no longer weigh mere surface gentility against the stern demands of an active metabolism.
9
At the same time I know this to be a deception, a collection of mere surface effects.
10
However, it is a musical and we were never going to get beyond mere surface in that context.
11
They are designed to be mere surface questions, to secure acquaintanceship with a few of the great facts.
12
The contraction of his facial muscles had been involuntary, a mere surface stir, leaving him sullenly attentive as before.
13
But these are mere surface-facts.
14
But these are mere surface qualities, more or less common, though at lower power, to all forms of humour.
15
We regard mere surface glitter, or mere verbal sweetness, in a mood entirely passive, and with a pleasure entirely profitless.
16
Photographs give mere surface.
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