Sentence examples for he seems merely from inspiring English sources

But somehow the story hardly seems the playwright's focus; he seems merely to use it as a frame over which to drape his experiment in narrative method.

Instead of a dark intensity, he seems merely surly, brooding more than angry, while his changes of tempo are less mercurial than clunky.

In others he seems merely childish (eyeing Gen. Henry Shelton's peppermint during a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, until the general passed it over).

The difference in "Mary George of Allnorthover" is that one of these eccentrics, Tom Hepple, may not be quite so harmless after all -- although at first he seems merely strange.

But Welles managed to impart an astoundingly rich physical texture to every scene: the wintry air, the glow of a fire in Justice Shallow's hut, the fullness of the surrounding life appear so natural — the showy camerawork of his youth is mostly gone — that he seems merely to have photographed a world miraculously found.

In the person of Jeff Bridges, Ted could have been a major figure — a louse who nevertheless embodies a larger humanity than tidier men — but by the end he seems merely diminished; he billows across a lawn in his dressing gown, a survivor descending into triviality.

Macdonald was right at times; more often he seemed merely agitated and confused, his struggles to find a coherent politics mirroring the problems that faced many of the New York intellectuals, particularly in the wake of World War II.

Yet try as he might to exalt it, Ellroy's desire, when not predatory, often seems merely pitiable.

The Indian seems merely incidental, in other words; not integral.

This seems merely another example of unwarranted -- and ludicrous -- ghettoization.

What seems merely plain to me seems noble and properly self-effacing to others.