The culminating chorus, "Ruht wohl" ("Rest well"), should be melting; here it merely spoke of consolation.
It's a good point, but it merely speaks to the importance of making all work in the U.S. legal.
"I don't think I was merely speaking broadly, Senator," he said when Hirono pressed him on the issue.
This is absurd, of course: actors merely speak their lines; they don't invent them.
The people in this novel don't merely speak in clichés, their every action is clichéd.
Staunton, so meek in "Vera Drake," doesn't merely speak her brazen lines; she launches them, with devastating precision.
Jesus, the fulfillment of the Prophets, does not merely speak the word of God; he is the word of God.
When the singing of a Jewish cantor strikes Judd as long-winded, Judd does not merely speak of boredom.
As a result, said Akhil Amar, a law professor at Yale University, Cheney can claim that "what he did was merely speak rather than fire...
Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.Does Mr Gore merely speak sweetly to all sides?
It's a long, weary journey from now to the nominating conventions of l988, he adds, but you have to run for it and not merely speak for it, no matter how well you speak.
