There is still another reason which is urged by some, derived from the dependence of the mind on the body, and its liability to be affected, beneficially or injuriously, by mere physical influences.
In brief, marked mental activity may be quite as dramatic as mere physical action.
If we examine other extracts from famous plays we shall, however, find ourselves wondering whether action in drama must not mean something besides mere physical action.
And that means that it is entirely unsafe to get engaged on the basis of a mere physical attraction.
We must take our whole selves into marriage, and to have experienced a mere physical attraction is no proof that we shall be able to do it.
Again, superior cunning, stealth and swiftness of foot, or even better weapons, would often lead to victory as well as mere physical strength.
Seeing that many are coloured to escape danger, I can hardly attribute their bright colour in other cases to mere physical conditions.
How are we to know that what He says is true respecting a matter of such deep concern to ourselves, and yet so utterly unknown to mere physical nature, and so out of the reach of its powers?
Being burned is a mere physical change, like the burning of a stick of wood, if it is not perceived as a consequence of some other action.
Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.
A story is usually more that a mere physical spectacle, more than a sequence of physical happenings.
In other words, a novel does not function as a mere physical spectacle; being a story, it must have a motive, an artistic purpose; and if it has more than one it will be at cross purposes as a work of art.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere physical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
