Sentence examples for is merely silly from inspiring English sources
Rodrigo Santoro, as Xerxes, is merely silly: he looks less like the king of kings, shah of shahs, and emperor of emperors than the mixologist of mixologists or the body artist of body artists.
First, it becomes a kind of hypertolerance (which argues, for example, that the canon of black female authors is as rich as that of white male authors); which is merely silly.
Buckley's review in The New York Times claimed the episode "veers back and forth between comic situations that aren't funny, serious matters that aren't that convincing and a romance that is merely silly" and stated that various lighting and acting techniques were unsuccessful.
It manages, in the end, to be merely silly.
2. Accusations of beating with chains, throwing on barbed wire, being forced to shout insults against Herr Hitler in chorus, &c., are merely silly, but many individual cases specified have been disproved.
One of the old white guys was George Washington, and Markowitz's gesture was taken by some to be unpatriotic; others thought it was merely silly, particularly since he had not felt obliged to surrender his own Caucasian electoral ambitions to Jeannette Gadson, the black, female runner-up in the primary for Borough President.
Some situations were merely silly: elephants falling from the ceiling, or two women's mink coats having a fight.
Though Family Guy is merely a silly, often crude cartoon, Stewie's point about the clueless nature of most Americans, and his view that this speaks to our decline relative to other nations is a popular one, particularly among the political elite.
