Sentence examples for like a merely from inspiring English sources
Although the debate in Charlottesville might seem like a merely academic dust-up, Stern said that the questions it raises have a far larger significance.
While the Missouri race may look like a merely local version of the national contest and might therefore be expected to mirror the fortunes of the wider battle it is not behaving that way at all.
When you think about all that fundamental stuff some ancient and shared with other mammals and distant ancestors, some idiosyncratic and new consciousness can seem like a merely surface phenomenon, a user interface that obscures the real works below.
Lucas the director, the still-aspiring avant-gardist whose own pleasures in ecstatic confections and delirious conjurings seem, to the lovers of his myth-world, like a merely incidental idiosyncrasy, is oppressed by Lucas the storyteller and Lucas the showrunner of his own long-term series.
That creative decision might have felt like a merely tokenistic gesture, of course, if he weren't such a richly and coherently imagined character in the bargain.
If we drive ourselves to like a profession merely because of its financial reward, we may find ourselves living in an upside down life--feeling trapped and unfulfilled.
He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin.
Perhaps the "like" is merely a precursor to more explicit brand endorsement by Facebook users.
This is extremely difficult, and many accomplished novelists would botch it, since a sure hand is needed to make the writer's careful stitching look like a thread merely being followed for its own sake.
"I swore I would not go out like a coward, merely diving the plane into the ocean for one bright flash of pain, and then nothing" he said in his book, which was written with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito.
In particular, I was afraid that with Twitch no longer growing like a weed (merely like a regular plant), that could put some dampers on the wild speculation about the future of the streaming business.
