It is merely doing enough for the economy to survive, not thrive.
After all, how can you justify sacrificing someone who is, by any objective measure, technically superior for someone who is merely good enough, yet expected to gel a team socially a judgment call that more often than not is subjective?
Indeed, given that the story of the post-crash labour market has been one of workers trading down – onto lower real wages or zero-hours contracts – is merely reducing joblessness enough?
The doubters are merely wise enough to have doubts.
The images were merely lovely enough to keep the attention of editors during the show.
Reta was merely savvy enough to know what people wanted to hear.
To say that movies are — and are intended to be — merely good enough feels at once like a statement of the obvious and a heresy.
The president, who has yet to live down an offhand remark from a debate in 2008 when he told Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton she was merely "likable enough," has been warned by his aides to avoid being smug.
He arrived in the visitors' clubhouse Thursday afternoon and told Manager Joe Girardi that he was feeling great, which Girardi took to mean that he was merely well enough to play.
This ordinary violence doesn't need to be spelled out, it seems to say — it's right in front of us if we're merely observant enough to record it.
