Sentence examples for but actually merely from inspiring English sources

Benicio Del Toro does heroic work as Jimmy Picard by emphasizing the character's distinctive way of speaking; he renders the glottal stops of Picard's Blackfoot language into English, rendering the English halting and lurching, easily mistaken for sluggish or unsure but actually merely accented.

The usual reference to broad societal discussion is well intended and sounds correct, but actually merely adds to vagueness on where decisions are made and by whom.

So it may be that the things we think of as part of a previous era's monoculture were actually merely popular at the time.

Since Twitter itself reports that 90% of users already use official Twitter apps (Mashable contests this figure, saying it's actually merely 58%), it may seem like no big deal if that other 10% will see their alternatives contract.

However, in the end the result of this procedure turns out to be quite trivial from a mathematical perspective: "It actually merely leads to a simplification of the method known as the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" already being practiced for more than 2000 years" (Ehrenfels 1922, 48).

Many of the others have PR-friendly names like "Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy," but are actually merely requests for agencies to study whether regulations (in this case, rules about offshore drilling) can be eliminated.

Well, because it's not actually merely a "problem", it's a national security threat.

Contrary to being told it dissipates over time, [formaldehyde] actually merely dilutes, leaving the highly probable conclusion that some percentage of this carcinogen toxin may well make its way into some of our ground water source".

She doesn't seem like a racist either, actually; merely an embittered ex-candidate and an old school feminist warrior whose legitimate passion has hardened into blindness and bile.

I want to write back to Samantha to make it clear that I'm not looking for any further involvement in her life but actually and merely asking for a one-time administrative courtesy.

After a trip there is a normal process of memory collapse — but memories are not actually lost, merely filed.