How To Use Purely In A Sentence

This has purely been a casual meeting in the street.
After all, the impulse for political grandstanding is not purely an American one … Soft, Geeky Power
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They decided to close the museum purely and simply because it cost too much to run.
We may look like lobsters, or tuna fish, but that is purely coincidental. Times, Sunday Times

It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
And the intention of the work is purely propagandistic - it is not to stimulate thought, but to close it down. Times, Sunday Times
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
On a purely practical level, it is difficult to see how such proposals would work.
It's purely coincidental that most of the people I know are from the same background.
I resist the view that the pleasures of fiction derive from its purely thought-experimental aspects.
But he says it is purely coincidental that he ended up as a farmer of coffee.
The purely aesthetic value of their work is easy to appreciate.
Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
By all means use this construction if it's what you prefer but it's purely a stylistic preference and not a grammatical imperative. Times, Sunday Times
It said that a rigorous assessment process meant they would not accept anyone applying purely for financial gain. Times, Sunday Times
This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
They must reach a verdict purely on the evidence in court. Times, Sunday Times
It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance.
M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [ A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
And even if she is right that many readers "don't care" about the matters of technique and style she says critics often "overvalue," does this mean critics should abandon more purely literary standards for the vague and untroubled standards she attributes to her infantilized common readers? Style in Fiction
The sane people of the world saw it purely as a piece of comic genius, and showered awards upon the badly-drawn comedy.
Now Copernicus' heliocentric theory wasn't exactly new nor was it based on purely empirical observation.
He became convinced that his illness was purely imaginary: that made it none the better.
They have been given college scholarships purely on athletic ability.
The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
It purely comes down to the players - defending is not just about the defence, it requires the whole team to make an effort.
In the first Hostel, the movie eventually revealed that its real interest was purely in shock value and the scopophiliac pleasures of dangling eyeballs. Movie Recommendations
The notion that the 2005 riots were primarily or even tri - or quad-marily anti-Semitic is purely invented. Matthew Yglesias » France Hearts Jews
His Chinese work stints started purely by accident, Miriam recalls.
It began as a religious organization, but these days it is purely secular.
She discovered that there was an alternative to the purely palliative treatment offered to her by the NHS. Times, Sunday Times
From a purely realistic scientific view, it turns out the gorilla is a poor choice for a monster; better would be the more violent chimpanzee. REVIEW: King Kong is Back edited by David Brin
Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience?
A spokesman said the area close to the A64 had been sealed off purely for evidential purposes, and there was no safety risk.
By a purely electric car and * ding ding ding* you've hit the jackpot. The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
Bathrooms don't have to be purely functional.
The Poem therefore (with the exception of the first canto, which is purely introductory) is narrative, not didactic. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
His therapeutics was a purely empirical one, uninfuenced by pathology or clinical diagnosis. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The audiences before whom _The Revenge_ was produced evidently showed themselves ill-affected towards such a medley of purely fictitious creations, and of historical personages and incidents, treated in the most arbitrary fashion. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
Sometimes this question is posed from a purely denominationalist perspective. Measuring character
People who hunt in fenced area are more then likely doing it purely for sport. What are everyones views about fenced hunting and baiting
The first is the cost of research and the need for profits to justify such costs; the second is the absence from virtual markets of the purely profit-based phenomenon of arbitrage.
The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists.
Both paper brands are not purely white, but are slightly toned.
Gen. Deddy S. Komarudin said later in the day the incident was purely an accident, and no other parties were involved in deactivating the grenade.
There was an intermediate period (from about the sixth to the ninth centuries) during which the title archimandrite was given as a purely personal honour to certain hegumenoi without involving any exemption from the monastery. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
They seriously risk jeopardizing their careers if they attempt to work purely in the intelligence field.
Peter says his right-handed writing is purely for on-paper work.
Although you and I agree (on the basis of the law of likelihood) that given evidence supports H over H*, and H** over both H and H*, we might disagree about whether it is evidence supporting H (on the basis of the law of changing probability) purely on the basis of our different judgments of the priori probability of H, Bayes' Theorem
Plus, not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of the religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years. Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isnâ€™t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.”
From a purely personal point of view, I'd like to see cars banned from the city centre.
For the time being, such work pursues purely commercial purposes.
There's no way of spinning this as anything other than a purely selfish move, a cash grab out of naked greed.
If we had in our power the pen which traced the delicate marvels of Queen Mab, not bigger than an agate that glitters on the finger of an alderman, of her liny chariot, of her diaphanous team, only then should we succeed in giving an idea of a purely ideal talent into which matter enters hardly at all. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
That would have hindered any formal investigation and it has meant this inquiry has had to rely purely on his memory which has proved to be lacking. Times, Sunday Times
The organization is run on a purely voluntary basis.
The truly personal diary, intended for purely personal perusal, is a rare thing.
We seem to be limiting ourselves purely to those people who are rich enough or bold enough to own a horse.
True, they ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts, and thus appeared to be acting with sensible restraint; but this sensible restraint is purely illusionary - and a simple example will show you what I mean by this.
With far less immediate commercial potential than Brassed Off or Herman's last picture Little Voice, Purely Belter feels thrown together and bitty.
And if anybody makes a claim that a supplement is "nontoxic" and better than a drug, that's based purely on opinion. Should you take a nutritional supplement?
One reason for the quilts' relative simplicity is purely practical: the quilters wanted to finish them reasonably quickly so that they could be used for their intended purpose - to keep warm.
Is this, in your judgment, purely coincidental that so many reporters suddenly are facing the prospect of jail?
One suggestion I would make is that the sense of ouai doesn't seem judgmental, as "reckoning" would imply that there will be a reckoning upon you (and there's no indication that the interjection is present progressive or gerundial), but purely interjectory along the lines of "poor you. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
I do it purely and simply for the money.
Any resemblance to nasty industrial poutine is purely nominal. Globe and Mail
Notice the similarity in phrasing between Heidegger and Adorno: they both talk of unveiling Adorno uses the word ent-hüllen, Heidegger ent-bergen, they both imply that truth is revealed by lifting a barrier that prevents it to be seen, but the crucial difference is that for Adorno truth is revealed through a critical relationship to the world, for Heidegger it is purely affirmative. Enowning
On a personal level, I believe in reincarnation and the basic spiritualities common to all religions, but on a social level I keep those purely speculatory beliefs out of equation because they do no good. Ryan VS Darin Round 1
Whether Fowler's routine on WK was purely camera theatrics or a combination of best practice and audience thrills is a matter of pov. A Not-So-Sad Farewell to the "Crocodile Hunter"
To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In Aaronovitch's telling, events in the Balkans become purely symbolic.
For now, attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest, rather than rely purely on third-party trade.
Getting approval for the plan is a purely formal matter: nobody will seriously oppose it.
It sounds like a charmed life, a purely decorative existence.
Any activity, even if purely intrastate, can be regulated by the federal government if it substantially affects interstate commerce.
This is a country that now thinks in purely collectivist terms. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, all my ponderings are purely academic, what with my confirmed bachelor status.
A significant benefit of Undo is purely psychological: It reassures users.
As Helen sat, they stood, and with this the mood changed from purely pastoral to a hint of lurking satyr. DEATH OF A NYMPH
As in connection with 1: 7 the idea of a kind of sidereal ocean had to be rejected as a purely fanciful notion of commentators, so here. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Of course, they may have to compete with purely domestic companies that are eyeballing the same markets.
The influence a writer can exert is purely adventitious.
The work of Crowell, Dott and Winterer led to the introduction of purely descriptive terms for poorly sorted and laminated facies that avoided any preconceived notion of a glacial origin.
In any event, no serious artiste should want to enter any level of competition purely on the basis of a loophole or technicality.
The word groups, all of which have been chosen purely for their fluency-promoting property, have been arranged in alphabetical order under various headwords in dictionary style.
Generally, the idea that the Red-State Democrats and Blue Dogs are simplistic, purely procedural, and therefore easily manipulated is a convenient assumption for certain arguments. Matthew Yglesias » How Many Votes to Change the Senate’s Rules
More subtle is the way the minor second also becomes symbolic of the Storm, again starting as a purely graphic detail.
He must not listen to the wrong people and consider it purely for financial gain. The Sun
He insisted that his relationship with the duchess was purely professional.
It is probably the case that a purely scientific approach may actually work for some who are suffering.
All this is described without inspiration and in a purely conventional manner, so it must be interpreted by the canons of the apocalyptic style.
Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I must say that I dislike the design of the volume and tone pots intensely.
It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind.
Beyond the crack, I caught a peak at a room built purely for comfort, decorated so richly as to be almost too opulent.
For me, the hotel and the apartments are just dandy, and deserve to succeed purely as a means to an end. Times, Sunday Times
In music colleges, students are increasingly taught mindfulness as a way of enhancing their performances through directing their attention purely on the music. Times, Sunday Times
This study finds that servicing is cost effective when considered purely in terms of science return per dollar. Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch
In economic terms, every economy has a right to resort to purely economic measures in a situation where a certain portion or the whole economy is jeopardised through foreign trade.
The channel at best is purely vague and bereft of any creative leanings.
Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
Schools in such deprived areas as Drumchapel languish near the bottom reaches of the system, if you rely purely on the percentages of pupils passing Higher and Standard Grade exams.
The building was closed purely on the grounds of safety.
Access is purely by boat with landing places on the east and west shores.
The success or failure of a war crimes tribunal, it seems, cannot be gauged in purely legal terms.
Once the purely linguistic approach has been abandoned, an opportunity has been provided for a new kind of onomastic vision which treats names as names and not just as words with peculiar properties. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
Genette's relational strategy leads him to construct purely abstract combinations without any real existence in literature.
Obviously Alberta puts a lot more into confederation than they get out, from a purely dollars and cents perspective.
Economists like to tally things in dollars and cents, but the significance of what happened cannot be expressed in purely monetary terms. DOT.CON
Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man's widow.
If the truth about Jaleh Place's event find difficult to reach the ears of French people, it's because journalists have diabolized the Shah's regime and cannot confess they exaggerated the facts for purely ideological reasons without knowing anything about the history of Iran, Islam, Shiite or Iranian society which suffers from the mullahs 'burden! Iran Resist
His karmic lesson was to realize that he couldn't live life by purely mental decisions.
He began to feel he could cope, on a purely superficial level, at least.
But it will now be purely in an ambassadorial role rather than as a figurehead chairman. The Sun
Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons.
As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them. The Minister's Charge
The legislation from Arkansas, known as House Bill 1032, employs the phrase "academic study of the Bible" throughout, stating that the course would be "nonsectarian, nonreligious" and purely an unbiased study of the Bible and its influence on other disciplines. Lee Jefferson: Legislation of Biblical Proportions: Can We Really Have an 'Academic' Study of the Bible in Public Schools?
Since its inception in 1990, EARCSB (previously known as East Asia Rabbit Ranch) has grown from a farm purely focusing on breeding rabbits for meat, to agro-tourism and petting today. Anorak News
She's interested in him for purely mercenary reasons.
Each year, every migration of every pelagic fish depends on where the plankton is and this is purely down to drift and current.
The work was of a purely military nature in enemy-occupied country. Times, Sunday Times
They carefully reflect a mix of motivations to these abuses, from the more excusable to the purely self-interested.
But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency. Times, Sunday Times
Hence exchange-value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrisic value, ie, an exchange-value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Indeed, for AH and BC to be orthogonal, the ratio (H - A) / (B - C) must be purely imaginary.
We have been attending to ‘exists’ and ‘is’ not for their own sake but purely as a prolegomenon to an ontological question, namely, that of existence.
A game purely about sniping is surely great? The Sun
You have to try this, he said, pouring me a taste of the Scottish Hendrick's Gin from a cute, dark, stumpy little bottle I had actually been admiring, purely from a visual perspective, earlier.
On the contrary, this bldg is purely a display of opulence, luxury and extravagance by someone who can afford. Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
Each of these theories springs from purely logical roots, confirmationism from Carnap's work on inductive logic, and falsificationism from Popper's rejection of inductive logic coupled with his assertion that universals can be falsified by a single counter-instance. Historicist Theories of Rationality
The turret is not a folly in the true sense, because it is attached to the house, but it is purely decorative. Times, Sunday Times
Any similarity between this film and real events is purely coincidental.
Although it had some religious overtones, Carnival has become a purely secular event.
This view fuelled an increasingly ruthless pursuit of methods by which to harness nature for purely utilitarian ends, motivated by desire for control, power and wealth.
_ -- In this kind of paraphasia in adults the cause is a lack of attention; therefore purely central concentration is wanting, or one fails to "collect himself"; there is distraction, hence the unintentional, frequently unconscious, confounding of words similar in sound or connected merely by remote, often dim, reminiscences. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
The House promptly proceeded, acting in a purely partisan manner, to impeach the president, and send the matter to trial in the Senate.
This was a purely agricultural village, growing acres of corn and tending large flocks of sheep. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
On a purely practical level, it is difficult to see how such proposals would work.
We have seen several examples in the last two years of situations which were handled very poorly and of decisions which were hard to justify from a purely economic point of view. Quebec Update
But there are also adaptive and purely analogical homologies, such as the interdigital palmation of aquatic birds, amphibians and mammals. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The purely aesthetic value of their work is easy to appreciate.
I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.
In as far as the body of the actor remains off-screen, the performance is rendered at a purely vocal level.
Margaret's skin was a lighter shade of olive that was so smooth that she was the envy of all the other girls, purely for her complexion.
This is a purely technical problem.
They sold the company purely for short-term gain.
It also lets us tell more of a story with our music than we could with purely instrumental music. The Sun
The prominent species are: Coregonus lavaretus, known as houting in its purely freshwater form, or as powan (Loch Lomond in Scotland), skelly (the English Lake District), and gwyniad.
The divine call is always heard as a moral and practical as opposed to a theoretical or purely cognitive one. Times, Sunday Times
There is, however, no indication in the above case law that freedom of assembly is intended to guarantee a right to pass and repass in public places, or to assemble purely for social purposes anywhere one wishes.
In purely formal terms, these paintings are sophisticated arrangements of color and shape in the tradition of the Fauves, particularly Vlaminck with his wild facture.
He explains that his offence was mild and purely mental, that in an infaust moment he glanced (doubtless stared soldier-fashion) at "Mistris Sabbath in Puritan New England
However, labialized stops, palatalized stops and now ejectives seem to me to be purely imaginative overkill, based on nothing concrete. A new value for Minoan 'd'
Curiously, a blitz game I won gave me a lot of confidence and motivation, even though I won it purely by chance.
Once they are in a political union you can't treat them in a purely economic way. Times, Sunday Times
The profit incentive was instilled in what used to be purely a subsistence mentality of only taking what was needed.
For a long time, people were going to see movies purely for the eye candy. Times, Sunday Times
Dawg, purely my opinion, but I think it's because they bragged back home and when they first got here that they were going to learn Spanish and integrate and interact in the local (Mexican) community and now find themselves unable or unwilling to make the necessary changes or to study enough to actually speak a little Spanish … more than más cerveza at least … so they are embarrassed, yet won't admit it. Page 4
Your analogy with the Queen is bizarre - her role is purely ceremonial.
I do not think that we need to focus purely on the idea of PVP and gaming in this discussion, for it leads us down the wrong path, more important is what we learn about the people from it. The Price of Serenity?
Our diplomats are instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility.
The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human.
The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
It's difficult and dangerous to extend the same thinking to nature, where there are other holistic considerations than purely physical ones. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
I'm proposing a bibiobibuli award for Malaysia's squidgiest bookshop (based purely on ambience - not on the range of books they carry) and nominations are now open. Archive 2005-11-01
Worse, the invasion is actually irrelevant, or worse, to accomplishing those objectives - it has to be a purely domestic politics, “looking tough” move. Matthew Yglesias » Time Machine
Because courage is not a trait often seen in politics, it is no wonder that so many pols would only view the legal challenge in purely political terms.
It is easy to assemble a purely rational argument against an hereditary monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
They also possess a crisp beauty that invites an immediate retinal response, even if their content steers the viewer away from any purely formalist reading.
For a purely linearly isotropic material, a single constant suffices to describe the sample elasticity.
Schools which were concerned that they would be judged purely on the money spent on bursaries have been assured that this will not be the case. Times, Sunday Times
Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.
A science, in the proper acceptation of that term, cannot be formed technically, that is, from observation of the similarity existing between different objects, and the purely contingent use we make of our knowledge in concreto with reference to all kinds of arbitrary external aims; its constitution must be framed on architectonical principles, that is, its parts must be shown to possess an essential affinity, and be capable of being deduced from one supreme and internal aim or end, which forms the condition of the possibility of the scientific whole. The Critique of Pure Reason
The CCF is a shell designed purely for bashing PETA. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
So far, it has remained a purely veterinary war and the only casualties are animals.
But this was purely on pre-release sales and the album forthwith dropped out of the charts like the preverbal falling brick.
Only in Goldilocks universes like ours where things have fallen out just right, purely by accident, will sentient beings arise to be amazed at how ingeniously bio-friendly their universe is.
A variety of purely mechanical devices were used from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries to increase the size and capacity of the ear to conduct sound.
The cows are purely pasture-fed and not stall-fed.
There are people who are dancing through life and others who are crying through life. The irony is that life is the same-what we do is purely our choice. RVM
I gave up the roll ups way back purely because of the chesty coughs and my Grandfathers death.
But the case was decided on purely procedural grounds.
Thus, we shall use the term strategy formation in the rest of this book, not because strategies have to be purely emergent but simply to allow for the fact that they can be, or, more realistically, almost inevitably partially are. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
Buttons ceased to be purely decorative and began to feature regimental designs.
Then, the snacks will start appearing, in groups of two or three, each one on its own specially designed plate: pristine disks that look like elaborately decorated candies from a Parisian confiserie but taste of salty sesame; crisp, translucent rectangles of raspberry punched up with wasabi’s heat; a thin cracker that tastes purely and intensely of the juiciest tomato you’ve ever eaten. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
East overcalled the obvious four spades, and South's double was showing values rather than purely for penalty. The best played deal of the Lederer
This may be a groundless, purely ‘felt’ fear, like the dread of letting oneself fall back into someone's arms.
The role of monarch is a purely symbolic one.
Since the championship has already been decided, this match is of purely academic interest.
These models are called "computable" because, unlike economic models that exist purely to prove theoretical points, it is possible to feed actual numbers into them and get numbers out the other end. Ian Fletcher: Economists Are Hopelessly Naïve About International Trade
The implication of this claim is that since the ‘golden rule’ is a universally held belief, it must be explainable by purely naturalistic processes.
Interestingly, this has a huge effect on perception of a user's competence or intelligence, even though it's a purely mechanical translation.
Getting approval for the plan is a purely formal matter: nobody will seriously oppose it.
English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
I think of Mr. Miller primarily as a hard-bopper and a purely rhythmic player, but his lovely, impressionistic reading of Henry Mancini 's "Dreamsville" shows that he's also a master balladeer when he chooses to be. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville

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