Sentence examples for i observed merely from inspiring English sources

When I was on the Court of Appeals, I wrote a decision for the court in which I observed: "Merely confining an inmate in a segregated cell does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Some people, he observed, merely brushed it with their palms.

I observed her.

I observed them.

"Curious," I observed.

I know this because I observed, and I observed well.

"Where others merely see, I observe," he intones thickly, and when he looks out a window he doesn't see two strangers approaching but "a young American lady and her half brother". Holmes operated in a simpler era, when it was possible to decode cultural clues without error because culture was cut-and-dried.

When I observe kids, I realize that parts of ourselves given up for dead are merely dormant and that old joys often re-emerge, but in a different form.

Sounds dangerous, I observe.

I observe the rests.

I observe Ramadan.