mere words

Mere words can hardly convey the preposterousness of the debt ceiling.

He spoke as a man who had learned after losing a child and wife how little mere words can mean.

But you knew it perfectly well, without any mere words of mine; your heart told you so.

Ours was a silent meeting, but her gestures and the expression of her eyes were surely more eloquent than mere words.

Mere words were colorless and negative; something positive would be required.

The greatest joys, like the deepest griefs, are voiceless; mere words humble, even profane them.

Startled as Barney was by this appearance of his dearest enemy, he wasted no precious time on mere words.