Sentence examples for either merely from inspiring English sources

People wanted parks to escape to, and Olmsted's vision of a democratic park was transformed, by degrees, into something either merely picturesque or crassly utilitarian.

There is not a wisp of delicacy here, and no castle, either, merely a gaggle of tents, pitched like nomads' dwellings in a bare land.

From the movie, we get the impression that the priests are either merely envious of Jesus' spiritual power or inherently and inexplicably vicious.

Depending on how things play out, the struggle between the Governor and the Legislature will either merely prolong the state's fiscal problems or, more likely, compound them.

Obama sought to keep a level head in the fallout from the attack by refusing to identify the massacre as either merely a terrorism issue or a question of gun control.

Many GPs have said that they were either merely given a document to sign by the PCT for their commissioning consortium to be established or were not consulted at all.

It's important to note that the court did not completely axe the law in Texas, either, but merely required the state to resolve the affected voters' lack of access to the polls.

The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didn't, as far as could be discovered, read, either — they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.

So it turns out Silicon Alley is both everywhere and nowhere, and, in either case, merely a piece of New York, along with Wall Street, Broadway, the flower district, nooks and neighborhoods, fashion, falafel vendors, street-side food, artists and musicians and even, in what they call the "boroughs," places where people actually make tangible things.

The fitted model may then be used either to merely describe the relationship between the two groups of variables, or to predict new values.

When I suggest they are neither as graceful nor as skilled as either, owners merely shake their heads in disbelief.