Meanings of mere vehicle in English

Perhaps it is needlessly durable as a mere vehicle for decoration.

The semi-autonomous KODIAK might not be a mere vehicle.

It is the mere vehicle of philosophy.

For it prevented Cloom being made in his eyes a thing of no account, the mere vehicle of strangers.

But he passed quickly from the music to those incomparable words of which the music was the mere vehicle and vesture.

We are to include in the idea of poetry the metrical form, and not to regard this as a mere accident or a mere vehicle.

Masonry is a succession of allegories, the mere vehicles of great lessons in morality and philosophy.

They seem reduced to the condition of the wooden cabs-themere vehicles-pulledalong by the irresistible horse Circumstance.

The horses are mere vehicles.

These men often talk as glibly as if they were essayists, they often seem to be mere vehicles for programmatic manifestoes.

This, however, cannot be accepted without taking into account the fact that many plays have been written very skilfully as mere vehicles for the actor.