The subsequent drawings prepared, often the merest of sketches, give physical form to cognitive processes already partly undertaken in the mind.
The merest glance at oral and written acts of communication in the real world will give the lie to this sentimentalizing assumption.
Sometimes he used the word "materialism" or its derivatives pejoratively: the possibility of inheriting acquired characteristics was, for instance, "the merest sensational materialism" (86).
But of this there is only the merest trace and it in no way reduces the value of the work.
Indeed, the resolutions provide the merest glimpse of what might well have been an extremely sophisticated system of parish governance.
Such a necessity requires a sovereign state to be on the alert against the merest suggestion of a rival claim or risk having its politeness mistaken for its policy.
These are the merest quibbles, in any event, since the main part of the project is devoted to the detailed examination of the differences in the selected chants.
This means the merest handful of sites which may survive while the vast majority, as has been said, is downgraded.
