Sentence examples for he merely seems from inspiring English sources

He merely seems grandiloquent and aggrieved — a blowhard.

He merely seems to have many complaints, without presenting any alternatives.

But when Smith goes down for the count, he merely seems like a poor jerk who got caught fighting out of his weight class.

He merely seems dedicated and stifled as a grizzled ex-con forester who becomes an unlikely mentor to a headstrong teen: it's Mud redux, then, with additional stagnant water odour.

Verhoeven doesn't seem to be trying to shock us; he merely seems to be dispensing with the nasty preliminaries, the better to get on with his slow and steady deconstruction of Michèle's psyche.

He merely seemed faintly pleased, as if he had won the hundred-yard dash or the school prize for diligence.

But sprawled in an armchair across from me, she merely seemed coolly respectful.

At first they merely seemed to be fans cheering on some invisible team.

But instead the president merely seems resigned and confident that he is being wronged.

Now, to many, it merely seems slapdash.

What is real and what merely seems real?