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White-collar workers who defined themselves by their proclivity to eat only light foods — as opposed to farmworkers, who weren't ashamed to treat themselves to "both cheese and a dessert" — seemed not more refined, but merely more conventional.

Its myriad displays of explicit violence are, for the most part, boring, and, if audiences seem to be inured to it (when in fact they're just lulled by it), other filmmakers may be moved to up the ante not more imaginatively but merely more copiously, not in quality but in quantity.

Or merely more forceful.

Or merely more difficult to apprehend?

However, it is not merely "more college" that is the answer, but rather what actually happens there that is important.

But the members of Take Back Your Time were calling for something more radical than merely more time off.

Arguably, reinforcing shorting with well-executed lobbying should not make it more unacceptable, merely more effective.

Nobody remembers a bad poem; it is, alas, merely more waste.

The younger generation is merely more honest, not more licentious, Will Durant counseled.

Turns out he's merely more perceptive than the average person.

Are prodigies a race apart, or are they merely more persistent than other kids?