The money is a mere sideshow of the real happiness booster [source: Brooks].

In later life the actual genital act may mean very little - a mere sideshow.

The Virginia City people had heard many famous lectures before, but they were mere sideshows compared with Mark's.

Humanity's most heartfelt joys and crushing defeats had been mere sideshows, small dramas acted out at the feet of greater entities.

The coming break-up of the single currency makes Britain's veto seem a mere sideshow, writes Jeff Randall.

But the terrorists are no mere political sideshow.

But last night, these sightings were, with all due respect, a mere sideshow.

By comparison, the roaring market of the Jazz Age, with its paltry three million investors, seems a mere sideshow.

But this was a mere sideshow to General Zorawar Singh's more famous expeditions, on which he had already embarked in the previous year.

Vital documents that should have been in court but were actually somewhere "in storage" seemed like a mere sideshow as events unfolded.