Sentence examples for appearance of merit from inspiring English sources

—Emma (1815) The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense".

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

"Thus it could hardly happen," Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers, "that the majority of the Senate would feel any other complacency toward the object of an appointment than such as the appearance of merit might inspire and the proofs of the want of it destroy".

I myself have no way of knowing whether people remote from me 'assume a false appearance of virtue', and it's probably better to take arguments on their merits rather than claim to know what personal feelings animate those arguments.

The early appearance of these differences merits further investigation in a larger number of patients treated with platinum-based therapy to determine any relationship between this enhanced DNA repair and clinical outcome.

We have just discovered, to our great satisfaction, that this new white paper gives everything we write, irrespective of merit, an appearance of natural grandeur, which in the past we arrived at only by straining.

It must have been a slow news day when the editors of the Sunday New Jersey section decided that the "striking" appearance of two new members, Kimberly Driscoll-Piscopo and Lauren Vanoni Vernon, merited a short article ("Beautifying the State , Arts Council Looks Within" Worth Noting, Feb. 3).

A new aristocracy of merit is emerging.

Particularization is the alone distinction of merit".

(Players are listed in order of merit).

unitless figure of merit.