Although the suspension was stiffer than anything I had ever encountered, the seat was comfortable, and shifting, of course, was a breeze, a liquid progression through the gears requiring the merest tap of my fingers.

I mean how is Max Pacioretty playing after the single most violent hit we've seen in the last 2 years, and guys like crosby and backstrom are out after mere taps?

A great cheer went up as he started hitting the ball around, the merest tap sending it miles across a field as brown as Raimundo's goatskin apron.

No doubt the whole of the ghostly stock of Alexandria (which vanished in the seventh century) can now be summoned up with the mere tap of a finger.

"A mere tap on the wrist for abusing prisoners gives the appearance that once again that the United States is not serious about its responsibility to discipline those convicted of human rights violations," Curt Goering, Amnesty International's senior deputy executive director for policy and programs, said in a statement.

A mere tap would not do; this was no token surrender.

It helps, of course, that the earthquakes are truly tiny, with a magnitude of 2.1 to 3.9, mere taps on the shoulder compared with the recent ones in Italy and elsewhere.

That meant nothing to the creature who could create fissures in a mountain with the mere tap of his hooves.

Salutes that he returned with the merest tap of his own loosely clenched fist.

For Shaithis - by his standards - the blow was the merest tap, light as the touch of a feather.