We are not, as it were, mere homo economicus, but homo ludens.
Accordingly, use of an (as it were mere) potentiality (dunamis) in the definition of motion, which disappears once the corresponding property is actualised, should be viewed as introducing a further restriction along the same lines as the stipulations in the Prior Analytics about the possible.
Emigration is positively and decidedly setting that way; but as yet it is mere worldly emigration, with the hope of making money, nothing more.
"Closer" is intended as 70s-homage soul but tonight it is mere lounge muzak.
PolitiFact carefully said it couldn't count that as a lie, since it was mere speculation.
To him, as with all great players, it was mere instinct (honed, naturally, by dedicated training).
Smetana's own opinion of the finished work, given much later, was largely dismissive: he described it as "a toy... composing it was mere child's play".
With nearly 40 million Corollas sold since the car's debut in the '60s, the Corolla is as much a social movement and a vital part of the American carscape as it is a mere automobile.
That number should sound familiar, as it is a mere $1 billion from Snap's own IPO value set earlier this year.
As in other roguelikes, the sting of defeat has as much to do with the abandonment of a particular tale, a particular world, as it is the mere loss of progress.
