Sentences with phrase «mere handful»

Morgan Library & Museum: «Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures From the Biblioteca Reale, Turin» (closes on Sunday) A mere handful of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are in this exquisite show.

It was the period when the teachings of the prophets, accepted in their time by a mere handful, seeped into the blood and bones of the people.

Why are works of human compassion nearly always left to be operated by a mere handful on a shoestring budget?

Of all the founders of religion only Jesus, after a brief ministry, in the full strength of his young manhood, betrayed, deserted, outcast by his own people, and mourned by a mere handful, deliberately chose a course of action whose end he foresaw, and was crucified between thieves.

You may be surprised that this vibrant shade is all thanks to a mere handful of SIX frozen cherries (and, full disclosure, a tiiiiny bit of post-processing in Lightroom).

The carrots and leeks I pulled fresh out of the ground — our very mild winter here in the Ohio Valley has meant a mere handful of days of hard ground freeze.

The amazing benefits of blueberries and other whole foods come from their unique combination of many nutrients, not from a mere handful.

After conducting a global investigation, which took him from the protestor - packed streets of South Korea to the bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India, Patel argues that a mere handful of powerful distributors control the health of the entire world.

Many coaches jumping from a Group of Five job to a Power 5 job leave their old program as quickly as possible after they're hired in an effort to try and cobble together a recruiting class and new coaching staff in the mere handful of weeks until National Signing Day.

I would not put myself up as capable of managing us BUT I saw after a mere handful of games that Walcott had the heart of a pea and no football brain whatever.

I also saw Walcotts congenital weakness of character and fight after a mere handful of games even though he was still very young.

A mere handful of games see us play good football from start to finish with the rest made up by flashes of excellent football in a game we have also looked equally poor in, or just a poor game from start to finish.

Bird - a-thon has grown to become Mass Audubon's single largest annual fundraising event, attracting thousands of supporters and raising more than $ 2 million since the competition began in 1983 with a mere handful of participants.

This Kids Guide to Beaches Resorts Turks and Caicos video is a mere handful of our many memories made and moments of pure fun.

Last summer, in a piece titled «Lay Off the Almond Milk, You Ignorant Hipsters,» Mother Jones» Tom Philpott calculated that an entire 48 - ounce jug of Califia Farms almond milk contains the same amount of protein as a mere handful of the nuts.

«A mere handful stayed in this business, but now, vaccines are seen as both economically and technologically interesting» he says.

Amidst this dazzling array of life forms, one question has remained as elusive as it is obvious: why is it that some groups on the evolutionary tree of animals have branched into a dizzying thicket of species while others split into a mere handful and called it a day?

So, from being an observer of the search on the TV / online news to becoming a searcher myself took a mere handful of mouse clicks.

By analogy, future 3 - D printers may be capable of synthesizing thousands of different material properties with a mere handful of material cartridges.

Yellow fever long ago disappeared into the interior, and given the mere handful of cases most years (2014 saw none at all), few people outside endemic areas get vaccines.

By 2009, scientists had identified a mere handful of specifically human retroviruses: HIV 1 and 2 (human immunodeficiency virus), the cause of AIDS; the HTLV group (human T - cell lymphotrophic virus), at least one of which — HTLV - 1 — was a cause of leukemia, lymphoma and an MS - like neurological disease; and HBRV (human beta retrovirus), tentatively considered the cause of a severe liver disease called primary biliary cirrhosis.

Why, then, are they at a complete loss to explain a mere handful of the stuff?

However, a mere handful of genetic adaptations could even the playing field.

We can all carve out a mere handful of minutes for yoga if we know exactly what to do.

``... the disturbing story of nutrition science over the course of the last half - century looks something like this: scientists responding to the skyrocketing number of heart disease cases, which had gone from a mere handful in 1900 to being the leading cause of death by 1950, hypothesized that dietary fat, especially of the saturated kind (due to its effect on cholesterol), was to blame.

... There's just too much to unpack in a mere handful of hours — simply put.

By the mid -»50s, Hitchcock's persona became the basis for the television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which ran for eight seasons (although he only directed, or even participated as producer, in a mere handful of the shows).

A high concept and catchy music make for a simple, solid joy, but a mere handful of tracks repeat through the game's campaign and challenge mode endlessly, and it's not long before this colourful, high - energy game starts to feel a bit boring.

Unsurprisingly, the Cinderella Blu - ray is light on special features, offering a mere handful that amount to barely 30 minutes overall.

The merest handful — perhaps four or five in a century — deserve to be called revolutions.

Even though a mere handful of you said you'd be seeing it this weekend, I figured I'd ask anyway: what did you think?

Christopher Meloni, on the other hand, makes a vivid impression in a mere handful of scenes as Minnie's delightfully pompous ex-stepfather.

primary characters is given a rich backstory and emotional arc to explore, which sounds cool until you realize that, due to time constraints, they have a mere handful of scenes to get the job done.

(No such dimension is afforded the local population, who are fleetingly represented and get a mere handful of lines; for their side of a similar story, check out Jennifer Peedom's terrific doco Sherpa, currently touring the festival circuit).

Dirt and debris have been exorcised with some care so that a mere handful of speckles remain.

Many Asian automakers deal with the long trans - Pacific shipping times and dealer inventory complexities by offering a mere handful of options packages rather than as many as two dozen individual options.

The LDS leadership has worked very hard to persuade both the modern church membership and the American public that polygamy was a quaint, long - abandoned idiosyncrasy practiced by a mere handful of nineteenth - century Mormons.

So, you'll probably end up with a mere handful of reviews on your books.

They are two of a mere handful of authors whose astonishing examples rev - up hope and motivation for those contemplating a drive down this revolutionary, eReader - fueled publishing route.

But taken to its logical extreme, shouldn't a bottom - up value investor's portfolio (for example) actually be focused solely on a mere handful of the cheapest stocks, in the cheapest sectors, in the cheapest countries?!

A mere handful of raisins or grapes can cause a lot of damage to some dogs.

The last decade has brought a frenzied pace of mergers in the space, reducing the industry to a mere handful of companies.

At Whitehaven Beach every spot is perfect to relax on its pure white sand, and the only crowds you'll see are a mere handful of people.

With the literally hundreds of games released this year, it was a substantial challenge for Dandr0id and Jack McBastard to narrow down the nominees to a mere handful in each category and choose which would be deemed most worthy of recognition in 2016.

With the literally hundreds of games released this year, it was a substantial challenge for Dandr0id and I to narrow down our nominees to a mere handful in each category and choose which would be deemed most worthy of recognition in 2016.

After awakening in a room in the mansion's chapel, he has a mere handful of hours to save The Sexy Brutale's first guest - Reginald Sixpence - from being blown away with a shotgun at the altar.

A high concept and catchy music make for a simple, solid joy, but a mere handful of tracks repeat through the game's campaign and challenge mode endlessly, and it's not long before this colourful, high - energy game starts to feel a bit boring.