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Значения термина mere decoration на английском

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Использование термина mere decoration на английском
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I liked the church as a pretty pattern; discipline was mere decoration.
Manalive
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The very employment of the gods for mere decoration bears this stamp.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
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It seemed, like the rest, to possess no attribute other than mere decoration.
The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story
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As usual they meant a lot more than a mere decoration.
Son of Power
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Nor was the gladness all show, mere decoration.
Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools / Edited With Not...
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All were moth-eaten, singed, bloodied, torn and faded, and now, with the passage of decades, reduced to mere decoration.
The half-made world
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The effort for mere decoration, for pretentious show, is so evident that one wishes for an earthquake to swallow them all.
The Cost of Shelter
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But today the elaborate manner in which she had done up her hair, in the English fashion, made it appear a mere decoration.
The Home and the World
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If we teach that there is nothing else below the bottom line, then ideas about sustainability, diversity, responsibility and so on become mere decoration.
The Guardian
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And this is the reason why such poems strike us as creations, not manufactures, and have the magical effect which mere decoration cannot produce.
English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
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Most argumentative, didactic, or satiric poems are partly of this kind; and in imaginative poems anything which is really a mere "conceit" is mere decoration.
English Prose / A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion an...
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Avoid using on your walls as mere decorations articles such as rugs or priests' vestments primarily intended for other purposes.
The Art of Interior Decoration
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"These things are not here for mere decoration's sake," it seemed to say.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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The point is, rather, that Whale pushes his sequel so far into comedy and camp absurdity that the shocks become mere decorations.
The Irish Times
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"Something far better than mere decoration; however, is requisite to make society at all agreeable," continued Mr. Ellsworth.
Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume ...
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