It's the wish to kill that counts--the mere instrument doesn't matter.

He has not even a suspicion that the real point is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.

In ourselves, we are all mere instruments of varying degrees of efficiency.

We are persons entitled to dignity and respect, and yet they see us as mere instruments for their satisfaction.

"Danny Review: Man as a mere instrument of the society".

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

The one ridden by the loa is the merest instrument - a vessel, a vehicle for the Invisible.

She felt like an object, a mere instrument, and incredible though it may seem, that feeling of submission gave her a sense of complete freedom.

(2) Women would no longer be man's "respected and beloved companion," but serve as a "mere instrument of selfish enjoyment."

Despite what Rick said about the police being mere instruments of the state, paid enforcers, she couldn't believe that would make him actually kill one of them.