Sentence examples for best merely from inspiring English sources

The dialogue was at its best merely functional.

He was, at best, merely considered to be 'insane'insane

Now designers are at best merely surface decorators, appliers of Botox to manufactured objects.

Hip-hop is, at its best, merely a boring beat; at its worst, it's noise.

Four months her junior, Fletcher appears, at best, merely inconvenienced by his father's demise.

Except that Mr Mori is, at best, merely a temporary stand-in.At 62, the new prime minister is the same age as his predecessor and like him a product of Waseda University, which has produced many of Japan's leading politicians.

Comparing Conrad's novel to other European portraits of Africa and its peoples, Achebe concludes that "without doubt, the times in which we live influence our behavior, but the best or merely the better among us... are never held hostage by their times".

"There might have been good dogs and bad dogs, but cats at best were merely suffered".

As for New York University's proposal for a new Greenwich Village elementary school, that is just a proposal and an empty one at best -- merely to sweeten the pot so that it can continue to expand and completely swallow the rest of the area.

His best was merely sufficient.

I went, terrified, hoping at best to merely glimpse the Bohemian lifestyle my run-of-the-mill suburban upbringing had undoubtedly denied me.