Sentence examples for he speaks merely from inspiring English sources

His style is to deliver them with a creepy smile, but it would be a mistake to think he doesn't mean what he is saying, that he speaks merely for effect.

Perhaps he isn't speaking in his capacity as make-believe actor at all; perhaps he speaks merely in his other capacities as make-believe author and director and audience.

The question then becomes one of whether the best explanations of our moral judgements and beliefs invoke the supposedly natural moral properties and facts those beliefs are claimed to take for their objects or whether instead they speak merely of prosaically nonmoral natural properties gilded perhaps by our internal sentiments.

Secondly, it is not always clear what this power is and how it acts, especially when he is speaking merely analogically, "as if" (particularly in the case of light).

And when Elpinice came and besought him in her brother's behalf, he answered, with a smile, "O Elpinice, you are too old a woman to undertake such business as this". But, when he appeared to impeach him, he stood up but once to speak, merely to acquit himself of his commission, and went out of court, having done Cimon the least prejudice of any of his accusers.

As the diary gained publication in country after country, its renown accelerating year by year, he spoke not merely about but for its author — and who, after all, would have a greater right?

The Commons Speaker, John Bercow, may have seemed to be speaking merely for himself when he opposed any parliamentary embrace for Mr Trump earlier in the week.

But in the end he's too different from people, and too much a self-styled artist, to speak merely for the anxious, the overworked or the depressed.