Sentence examples for is merely as from inspiring English sources

If your part in education is merely as a consumer, why should you see yourself as anything else in later life?

The souls in Heaven may not long for anything they don't have, but there is someone here who does: Dante, conscious at every moment that what he is producing in this poem is merely, as the veteran Dante scholar John Freccero put it, "a compromise short of silence".

The supernatural has no starring role: it is merely as present in the lives of its characters as a trust in the reality of angels, or a dread of demons, would have been in the minds of medieval men and women.

A statement of identification is merely, as it were, a feature-placing relational statement, like "This is darker than that".

John McDowell takes this view (McDowell 1994b), suggesting that subpersonal content is merely "as if" content (an argument for the same conclusion is offered in Searle 1990).

On Husserl's view, that thought simply lacks a corresponding object; the intentional act is "merely as of", but not really of, an object.

Church leaders are merely as penitent as they need to be to protect the institution.

As you'd hope, the iPhone 6s is better than its predecessor with a few elements, like the battery, that are merely as good.

What he says might be merely as alarming as anything to be found in the caves of Tora Bora, and a lot more difficult to defeat.

My Obamarama role has been merely as an enthusiastic observer, low-level donor, and erstwhile volunteer for the campaign.

I was merely as good at it as the next guy, but I would like it to be noted that I thought I knew my craft.