How To Use Merely In A Sentence

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
It's all too easy for me to "pass" and let society define me as merely "kind of Jewish looking"; but I think I should begin to reclaim my heritage while my gran is still alive. I hope when the end comes it is painless
To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
I was merely commenting how superior the Assos jersey seemed, compared to the other jerseys in my burgeoning collection.
This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.

This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
According to FDA officials, the herb stevia can be ‘adulterated’ merely by being in the presence of information that reveals its sweetening property.
You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing. American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings
I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
And this groove isn't merely about the young and the funky. Times, Sunday Times
Galileo was attracted by the implicit contrast between physical propositions that were demonstrated and those that were merely affirmed.
Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
His brave words are merely a pose.
The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
Even two songs cut with hot producer Gavin Brown and ace keyboardist Richard Bell are merely passable.
This may be because the credulousness that goes hand in hand with little experience allows one to fall in love merely with appearances, and winter is beautiful. The Fire We Tend Against Winter
The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
The haircut is merely the latest stage in his curious and unusual battle to avoid overexposure.
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
It remains to be Seen if that is a genuine , substantial shift, or merely Aeon propaganda.
Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
They have no hope, merely a mindless shriek of hatred they believe might bring down destruction on all so they can scavage the corpses. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
I establish, since it is clinically relevant, that you have not, in fact, had the penectomy and vaginoplasty yet, and are merely scarfing down hormones and getting all your facial hair yanked out. M.D.O.D.
And while you might think that you have all the right in the world to lead Orlath, I am not fighting merely to replace a madwoman with a fanatic.
They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
Merely uncoil the roll of mesh so there are 3 feet or so between each coil.
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
merely a dull rehash of his first novel
The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
He doesn't say a word, merely nodding in acknowledgement of Stephen's greeting.
The practice of theurgy, then, becomes a way for the soul to experience the presence of the divinity, instead of merely thinking or conceptualizing the godhead.
The tourists can merely hire Qualis, and the services of a hostess are optional.
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been.
This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. The Modesty of His Lordship
On the other hand, it is very probable that this subcaudal extension of the fins is merely a result of the posterior extension and enlargement of these fins which has taken place in the evolution of the adaptation. Hormones and Heredity
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?
Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but khan of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.
Being critical must be distinguished from being merely contra-suggestible.
He was no longer talking to her, merely venting his rage out loud.
Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
I would say to your readers that I am a fond cat lover and I am merely making a valid point.
The difficulties in her way merely strengthened her resolve.
We must investigate what produces solecisms, and not merely adduce examples.
The very idea of Chef's Theater is so risible that we cannot be sure that the whole thing isn't merely an elaborate, brilliant hoax - indeed we desperately hope it is one.
For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes.
Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
‘We were merely prosing about old times.’
I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things. As I Please
These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
Part of this may be cultural — Korean variety shows certainly display a pleasantly anything-goes aesthetic — but my sense is that merely singing in English semiotically signals a certain kind of Muzak quality within a dramatic context. Archive 2008-04-01
Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
Human nature is greedy, devious and sleazy, and most salacious tabloid stories are merely reflecting that fact.
It would be the sheerest hypocrisy for these same Democrats to give President Obama a pass on such criticism, merely on the grounds that he is of their party. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Zombie Attack!
Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem.
But they do not exist in some half-real realm, neither fully actual nor merely possible.
It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. A Simple Story
So my heterosexual male readers are merely invited to recall the most exotically beautiful woman they've ever seen and imagine her two or three notches better-looking.
Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period.
The use of a smaller centrifuge will merely make the operations more time - consuming.
I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled. Eothen
And so all Israel shall be saved -- To understand this great statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief, is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Many canonists hold that the subdiaconate, being of merely ecclesiastical institution, was formerly amounted one of the minor orders of the Church, and infer that before the time of Urban II (1099), Abbots could have given that order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
It is merely a document, which must be served within the jurisdiction under CPR part 6.5.
Ha! you may ask -- he gave his mistress a potion, for the purpose of merely seducing her, and it turned out to be poison -- a _carabin_ like yourselves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832
The useful products of the field are themselves beautiful; the sainfoin, the blue lucerne, the blood-red trifolium, the clear yellow of the mustard, give more definite colours, and all these are the merely useful, and, in that sense, the plainest of growths. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
I merely wish to get up and to rouse myself, so as to think that I am still master of myself.
Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures.
built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc. Smith's Bible Dictionary
There is no sustained analysis to speak of, merely impressionistic detail woven into a narrative of tedious detail and worthless prose.
One might object that his account draws on the possibility of a merely possible world.
Meanwhile, outside the United States, the Abu Ghraib story doesn't so much ‘damage’ our reputation, as it merely cements it.
The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete the outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
Elena is unique among humans, not merely because of her wings, but because of her body structure.
Arrestment is not a strategy merely decided by judicatory organ, but a Nash equilibrium which involves the judicatory organ and suspect.
Her voice was cold as if she was merely reciting facts from a textbook.
He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles with footnotes and quiet exposition.
It has proved difficult to establish causal rather than merely correlative relationships between carbohydrate accumulation and cold tolerance.
I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
The significant difference is that our interpretation of the capital-output ratio includes variable capital, not merely fixed capital stock.
The Midrash says that the Third Temple has already been constructed in heaven, and merely awaits our preparations here on earth.
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
A colorable claim is something that may not be legitimate but merely appears to have legitimacy.
Nevertheless, many environmentalists remain concerned that any talk of restorative grazing is merely an environmental smokescreen that lets ranchers continue to devastate the land.
The composition of terrigenous sedimentary rocks would merely reflect the compositional aggregate of their source areas.
Does the rule that a legislator be present to vote make sense, or is it merely an anachronism?
If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
I think going for merely "futuristic" is short sighted. EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dune’ Director Explains Plans For ‘Faster’ Movie, Better Representations Of Clothes And Tech » MTV Movies Blog
Does the bedrock constitutional principle of equal protection for all require affirmative action, merely allow it, or even prohibit it?
To his Majesty this was merely the voice of Max at his flightiest. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
The signing of Tendulkar was described as a whitewash merely to cover racial bias.
The ABC were never in fact supporting the concert, but merely recording it, in order to broadcast the event at a later date.
The burden of the essay will be merely to indicate how voluntarism can succeed in academic circles.
Nor do you, but at least mine has a logical explanation while yours merely relies on a fresh ladleful from the bottomless pit of bile that constitutes discourse from the right these days. Discourse.net: White House Puts its Media Skills to Work on Diplomacy
our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manóbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
On the contrary, its suffering appears merely to have redoubled its determination to resist. Times, Sunday Times
Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
Wainwright’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday (and also last night) was not merely a show, but a cultural event that drew a sold-out crowd dotted with celebrities and an audience that held Wainwright in rapturous esteem. Katie Holmes “So You Think You Can Dance” VIDEO (Judy Garland “Get Happy” Tribute)
Recent evidence suggests that buy-backs merely create banking commissions and do not stimulate growth.
But I saw that fiction--he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous--is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
These paths are merely strips of grass - perhaps two lawnmowers wide - weaving through a yard full of flowers.
So is it merely catalog mail order made complicated by computers?
The effort of reflation is not merely coming from the U.S. and [quantitiative-easing] potential, but is also a policy that appears will be taken more widely," said Stephen Lieber, chief investment officer at Alpine Mutual Funds. Stocks Rally to Five-Month High
He was surprised upon learning that he merely had to untuck the bedcovers to get under the blanket.
This latest tragedy merely confirms my view that the law must be tightened.
He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity. Ionica
No longer do the leaders of the smartest city governments view the environment as merely a source of dirt for the homebuilders, or wood for the woodcutters.
Without that, there is no such thing as society, merely the clamour of competing voices and the clash of conflicting wills. Times, Sunday Times
If we like to think of the electrons as being merely what I call their charges, then the charges act at a distance. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something. Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate
To believe that its catalog is merely a backward extension of Farrar's solo career is to sorely underestimate the essentialness of the three other musicians who made up the band.
To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed. Captain Blood
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
They merely induce wealthy collectors to dip into their pockets.
Lentigo consists simply of a circumscribed deposit of pigment granules -- merely a localized increase of the normal pigment, differing from chloasma (_q.v. _) only in the size and shape of the pigmentation. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
It is merely a kind of varnished silk, and its manufacture is very easy. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Indeed, the dubitable claim of a lack of similarity between Willy and Harry is clearly null and void - one merely need examine the spellings of said names! Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
To map that joining, we must explore emerging technologies, not merely because they are new, but because they have some bearing on a facet of sound and music that is meaningful to us.
In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
He taunted, and I merely stumbled back as I felt more blows upon my side, my front, and my back.
While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive.
I am not a pillar of the Church of England, merely a minor buttress. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Their seaside conference was pencilled in as merely a stroll towards a second term.
Extreme assertions of diversity, such as Kallen's, imply a kind of racial or ethnic essentialism and separatism, not merely cultural pluralism.
This means that one could regard all talk of hypersets as merely abbreviatory. Non-wellfounded Set Theory
It viewed the Marshalls attack merely as an enemy attempt to divert strength from our southern operations.
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
I merely need to soak it in, bathe in it, let it speak to me the way it has spoken to others.
The parties are no longer merely scrutinising bills; they are trying to kill them, inflicting maximum damage on the other side. Times, Sunday Times
Bush is not merely treating Clinton as a lame duck.
These aren't really a type of virus; the name merely describes their extraordinary ability to hide from anti-virus software.
a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated
Of course his reconstructions might be merely a projection of Propp's thesis onto the material, in which case he was proving nothing; but he knew -- he _knew_ -- that his reconstructions were not nonsensical, and they did tend to coalesce toward the pure structure Propp had devised. Enchantment
The Packers lacked depth at linebacker and their coverage units have been merely average.
Their thrashings were also, she presumed, merely instinctual. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Instead, the blandness of the Hollywood versions merely underlines the oddness, individuality and appeal of the originals.
He merely jerked her forward so that she was much closer to him than she would ever like to be.
You are not the originator of material, merely its finder and collator. The Times Literary Supplement
MBN conflict sounds a lot like what some call the “aesthetic” conflict, though it seems you are emphasing its informational basis more than it’s merely formal basis. have read any schiller? i’m thinking specificially of the aesthetic education of man a series of letters. 4GW, Nation-Building as Soft-Colonization,Time Ranges in War/Conflict, and Meme Wars « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter." [ The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
In the short term, to the extent that it enabled workers to recover entitlement losses, this merely shifted those losses from workers to other unsecured creditors who were in no way responsible for the problem.
There are photographs of ‘jilleroos’, but while nominally these are the female equivalent of ‘jackeroos’, the important difference is that jackeroos are young men getting station hand experience before passing onto something better, while jilleroos are merely female station hands full stop.
He was not a fame - monger , but merely one of God's mad lovers.
Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
The other remedy is an extension of the principles enunciated some time ago by Dr. Horace Britton, of Toronto, when he pointed out that the primary duties of the electorate were not merely to cast their votes but to acquaint themselves with the candidates offering themselves for election and with the issues before the people. The Weak Spot in Our Canadian Constitution
Instead, officers often merely give verbal warnings. Times, Sunday Times
For the human shell is not merely geometrical and architectural, like those of apian or beaverish communities; it holds and expresses all those differences by which we are exalted above the bee or the beaver. Civics: as Applied Sociology
Deep inside they know that all of this hand-wringing is merely for the cameras … Cheney Must Be Very Angry « Antiwar.com Blog
In case it be thought that a note of selfpity has crept in to this account of my apparent boredom, I must say that the intention was never to complain about my fate, but merely to explain the form of my protest. An Autobiography
Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
When he produced his first few results on 4-manifolds, the ideas were so new and foreign to geometers and topologists that they merely gazed in bewildered admiration.
Bread and the circus are freely given to the deserving, and as for the undeserving, they are merely reaping the rewards of their contumacy and pride. A REVIEW
And, so saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through. Chapter 11
For many the philosophy was merely a fashion, and the novelty soon wore off.
She had no appetite, and merely toyed with the bread and cheese.
In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage.
Usually, however, not wishing to go into the matter so thoroughly -- having come in contact with outsiders chiefly when they have been on holiday and least economical -- he considers a tip merely as the outflowing of a gen'leman's abundance. A Poor Man's House
Diaghilev demonstrated that music could and should have an organic function in ballet, not merely serve a decorative purpose.
Uber says that it is not a taxi company but merely a technology platform that helps individuals to drive others around as and when they please. Times, Sunday Times
The meeting was merely an exercise in damage limitation.
Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful.
Besides, I understand that every forecastle has its bully, or group of bullies; so this is merely a forecastle matter and no concern of the afterguard. CHAPTER XVII
The school inspector's function is not merely to pronounce judgement, but also to suggest improvements.
Her recent speech was merely a restatement of her widely publicised views.
Cymbals clash, and a drum-roll indicates that the main event is merely warming up. 2010 May « The Graveyard
The medicine won't cure her - it merely stops the pain.
Although it is merely sixty pages long, and lamentably lacks footnotes, it is nonetheless the best and most up-to-date capsule history of Chinese porcelains made for the European and American markets available.
He also credits Aristotle with saying: Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life (p. 463). Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.
His guards stepped quickly into the room, hands on their sword hilts, but seeing their master and the nun in the same positions and perfectly calm, the guards merely took their places by the door and stood waiting. This Scepter'd Isle
Luke has Zechariah ministering not merely at the hieron, the temple complex, but in the naos, the inner sanctuary of the temple restricted to the priests.
The menu is insecure enough to try and impress merely with girth and size. Times, Sunday Times
If he thinks himself too good to consult with another doctor, and a lady at that, merely because she doesn't happen to be allopathist, he can go along! Dr. Breen's Practice
After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind. Chapter 30
Some of the goals of a non-epistemology are as follows: to free up the use of epistemological discourses; to refuse to submit them to the directions for use imposed by the putative synthesis of its objects; to transform the amphibolies of epistemology into particular objects without merely overturning oppositions.
They are all merely attempts of a conscious being to sum up an incomprehensible and nonconscious universe. Something Cool
Then, journals were created merely to meet the demand, and news was given as it actually occurred; whereas, now, the competition has produced a change that any one can appreciate, when it is remembered to what a _competition in news_ must infallibly lead. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale
Critical scholars and activists have long argued that nationality, ethnicity and religious identification are merely historical conveniences, accidents of birth.
It was not merely the delight of a stolen half-holiday and a game of golf again. Times, Sunday Times
He could tell from the sutures of the skull that two of them were merely cubs.
Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.

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