Sentence examples similar to This is merely optional from inspiring English sources
I understand the justifiable fear these readers have for a White House in which the truth is merely optional, and in which normal standards of courtesy or decency have lost the purchase they previously had under Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
In On Religion he is skeptical about the ideas of God and human immortality altogether, arguing that the former is merely optional (to be included in one's religion or not depending on the nature of one's imagination), and that the latter is positively unacceptable.
Again, to twist around the words of 1992 presidential candidate Bill Clinton and his interlocutors on the campaign trail: Pope Francis has pointed out, "It's the morality, stupid!" And to think that economics and self-interest are all that matters, and that morality does not matter or is merely optional, is the very height of stupidity (or pseudo-religious zeal).
With respect to AFM tip functionalization, this means that all (or almost all) benzaldehyde groups on the tip surface appear to react with a protein molecule under the standardized reaction conditions and that blocking of putatively unused benzaldehyde groups is merely optional.
This is only optional, however.
This is merely life and death.
This is merely one of them.
This is merely a heuristic characterization.
This is merely an estimate.
This is merely collagen (protein).
