Messiaen is rooted in the Christian deity, with all of nature its mere reflection.

Men like myself are mere reflections of your greatness.

"But always as a mere reflection of your glory," he added quickly.

He believed that the physical world was a mere reflection of the more perfect abstract world.

Besides, the device is no longer a mere reflection of the 1960's Pop culture but "an icon of our time."

If a mere reflection of payday feels like that, what must the real thing be like?

He would study their frozen, gleaming faces for something-anything-besides the mere reflection of the light.

What had hung here was a mere reflection from another place.

The last week's budget was only a mere reflection of the difficulties so many Irish people are going through at the moment.

For mirrors were far more than mere reflections of one's own vanity.