Sentence examples for ever merely from inspiring English sources
"No good writer ever merely cheered us up.
That honor, which is not handed out to every early-nineteenth-century writer — the magazine is not Regency People, after all — was, of course, an amusingly self-mocking acknowledgment of the absurdity of ranking Austen; anyone who is remotely connected to the world of letters or has ever wanted to be or has ever merely recited the alphabet would feel unqualified to rate Austen.
"Partisan" may strike some as a strange description for an issue that is largely one concerning technical details and legal precedents, but if net neutrality was ever merely an issue of bits and bytes, it has become a politically charged one over the last few years.
The appetite for Obama's leadership is as real as ever, not merely among liberals but among Americans of many political stripes and sides; he left office, after all, with nearly record-high approval, and would almost certainly have been reëlected had the law allowed it.
The incident, however, corroborated the belief of physicists that no energy is ever destroyed, merely transformed.
This charming, eccentric and comforting little English restaurant has an edge that stops it from ever being merely cute.
A performance of this ballet needs to convey a sense of eternal serenity without ever turning merely placid.
"Indeed, the conflict in Afghanistan has ceased to be, if it ever was, merely an internal Afghan problem," Mr. Annan said.
As a song composer, he ranged from the complex and highly organized to the extremely simple, strophic type; his melodic invention is always original and direct, while the accompaniments are deeply evocative without ever being merely picturesque.
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We are, in other words, deep in TED territory here, where no innovation can ever be merely useful or profitable, and must always mark something like a turning point in human history.
