Sentence examples for brings merely from inspiring English sources

And in "Pillars of the Sky" (1956) the journeyman director George Marshall brings merely a Sunday school didacticism to an ambitious script about frontier race relations originally intended for John Ford and John Wayne.

Mark Butcher is hugely proud of that achievement, but he doesn't lose sight of the greatest benefit a tourist can bring, merely their presence.

But few of us, on reflection, would be comfortable with a criminal justice system in which cases were not brought merely because the events took place long ago or because the accused was a celebrity.

Said Washington: they bring merely the spirit of revenge to the table, not the spirit of harmony.

But this cannot be a merely cosmetic exercise, in which loyal northerners are brought in merely in order to doff their caps to Cameron and Osborne.

Chesley argued he didn't really represent the 431 clients in the case because he was brought in merely to negotiate a settlement with fen-phen producer American Home Products.

Because the drug culture condones and encourages violence, a tragedy can be brought about merely through a casual remark -- a diss.

Brown was offered the part of Dot Cotton for a period of three months initially and in her own words, she was brought in "merely to be Nick Cotton's mother because Nick was coming back again".

Concentrating power in his hands, some would argue, merely brings faster progress towards a market economy.But it may not always be like that.

Some analysts remain sceptical of a "World Cup effect", arguing that it merely brings forward spending.

It merely brings some short-term quiet till the next eruption.