Sentence examples for i not merely from inspiring English sources

"I am in acute crisis about my work," he wrote in 1958, not long after Endgame had premiered in English, "(on the lines familiar to you by now) and have decided that I not merely can't but won't go on as I have been going more or less ever since the Textes pour Rien and must either get back to nothing again and the bottom of all the hills again like before Molloy or else call it a day".

Having no second thought in my twentysomething head, I retreated, knowing that I had not merely gone civilian, I had gone moron.

I was, I suppose, not merely skeptical.

"In that space of stark and utter realness, I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya.

"I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya," Gilbert wrote in a Facebook post.

My intention was to deliver information in a way that I thought not merely subjective but that I couldn't in good conscience pretend was interchangeable with the reality that was (or wasn't) known.

I didn't have to play someone who was, like, in some drastically arrested-development situation, but at the same time I'm not merely the straight guy, I get to be ridiculous and funny too.

But I do not merely hear Beethoven's music, which I could do at home on my CD player, I hear it in a special way.

I am not merely looking through a keyhole; I am a voyeur.

I was not merely skeptical or agnostic about it; I had come to believe, and do still, that these things are not wrong.

I spent 15 years at the centre, working alongside people I regarded not merely as colleagues but as friends, political allies and intellectual interlocutors.