Sentence examples for contained not merely from inspiring English sources
For moralists, it was all the better that the hive contained not merely these industrious paragons but their moral opposite, "the lazy yawning drone" of Henry V, Act 1.
That Benazir Bhutto, a two-time prime minister of Pakistan educated at Harvard and Oxford, contained not merely multitudes but multitudes of contradictions, would seem to be the premise of the uneven one-woman show "Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto," written and performed by Anna Khaja at the Culture Project.
One, The Masque of Queens (1609), contains not merely an extensive explanatory essay from Jonson, but detailed notes on dizzying stage effects (a hell with flames, dancing witches, the appearance of a "glorious and magnificent building" supporting 12 actors).
Moreover, Aristotle's claim that the polis is "greater and more godlike" than any other human community is put by Aquinas into a horizon which contains not merely the one civitas (Latin for polis) of which I am a member but rather the whole plurality of peoples and civitates (states, political communities): Eth.
Ordinarily, there might be something in this, but mitochondria really are self-contained, not merely in this legislation but also as a matter of nature.
He agreed with Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers, however, that slavery should be merely contained, not directly attacked.
Galen recognized that the arteries contain blood and not merely air.
In the nineteen-eighties, the neoconservatives believed that the Soviet Union could be defeated, not merely contained.
Our constitutional tradition is not merely contained in the negative rights found in the bill of rights.
Performances were not merely contained to VJ sets, but included real-time executables, and even "lectures-as-performance". Jon Cates 'read' a paper he wrote on Glitch, adding multiple layers of noise and recordings of the reading over each other until it was completely indiscernible.
