Junco et al. (2011) investigated the use of the social network Twitter in teaching based on the theory of Astin (student engagement), but merely indicated that the engagement is higher in the experimental group (which uses Twitter) than in the control group.
So it was disheartening to learn that what appeared to be a gesture of social engagement derived merely from the kind of whim that moves so many of fashion's lesser minds.
Owning a user's daily financial transactions unlocks vast potential and engagement beyond merely being there when that person needs a ride.
As Cain Todd (2012) argues, the awareness of fictionality of sexual representations ensures that one's imaginative engagement implies merely imagined "desire-like" states, whereas the voyeuristic appreciation of a stripper's erotic dance seems to preclude this sort of engagement, and in virtue of doing so, involves real sexual desire.
At the castle, Anna's request for a kiss is denied by Hans, who reveals their engagement was merely a ploy to seize the throne of Arendelle.
Obama went out of his way to list Hagel's achievements, but avoided dwelling on US engagement in Iraq and Syria, merely praising Hagel's work "helping build the international coalition" against the Islamic State.
Channelling Mill and Sen, he makes the case that effective democracy is a process of dialogue and engagement, rather than merely a set of institutions: "The most formidable obstacles to a democracy of public reasoning and social learning are within us".
However, this definition is insufficient, in as much as it reduces the engagement process to merely the behavioral/conative dimensions of patient experience.
They have catapulted their heroine into the thick of all kinds of adventures that merely include engagement and marriage to her longtime beau, Gilbert Blythe, a romantic triangle, publishing intrigue, espionage and war.
The monologues make clear the radical originality of Browning's new manner: they involve the reader in sympathetic identification with the interior processes of criminal or unconventional minds, requiring active rather than merely passive engagement in the processes of moral judgment and self-discovery.
