Sentence examples for in the merely from inspiring English sources

Each of these was presented with an élan utterly lacking in the merely pedestrian fried calamari with red dipping sauce, which tops the standard menu.

In the merely adverse case, the Fed assumes it goes as high as 4 percent during a putative recession that goes from the end of 2012 to the beginning of 2014.

Often, a series of so-called great vintages can create opportunities for consumers in the merely good years that can fall through the cracks, like 2001 and, more recently, 2008.

There is an almost complete suppression of individuality in Indian sculpture; this is because the figures are conceived of as shapes that are more perfect and final than anything to be found in the merely transitory appearance of human models.

This kind of shift risks sounding hollow, but Ty Dolla $ign is far too easygoing and not nearly famous or cynical enough to engage in the merely performative exercise of reputation reform.

Nicolson notes the era's growing taste for hyperbole (" 'I simply adore loganberries, they are so exquisitely subtle!' ") and here and there she falls victim to something of the same tendency, discerning the emblematic in the merely incidental: the weather can be, after all, just the weather, not a portent.

In 1995 the merely average technology fund was up 40.2%.

In 1991 the merely average small- company growth stock fund returned 58%.

Obese people in America now outnumber the merely fat.

It's not merely filling in the details that remains.

The legislative organs, centred in the soviets, merely rubber-stamped Bolshevik orders.