His son Biff, Willy asserts, will inevitably rise in the world, despite the moral failings they both swat away like pesky gnats, because he is "well liked," not merely "liked," as is Charley's studious son Bernard.
Ideally, one would like not merely to live longer but also to have one's different faculties fail as close as possible to when death finally comes, so that one does not have to pass through a period of debility at the end of life.
Many are concerned about what the last phase of their lives will be like, not merely because of fears that their dying might involve them in great suffering, but also because of the desire to retain their dignity, and as much control over their lives as possible, during this phase.
What, he asks, became of "literature's vaunted power to inspire empathy?" I find this a hard argument to like, and not merely because I am not yet persuaded by the moral case against drones.
These truth conditions involve what the actual world is really like, and not merely what it is like in a given fictional account.
Not merely because you've never seen anything like it, not merely because there hasn't been anything like it since Dadaists stalked the European continent, but because it is, in a way so little poetry is, visceral.
Stranger still, can you imagine what it must be like to not merely be undecided, but to be so ideologically mushy that a certain wink, a clever catchphrase, a smarmy comeback, a TV news pundit with the right haircut might have the power to change your mind on a whim and a Gallup Poll uptick?
If the series is to be believed, we would like young women not merely to get their financial lives in order but to enter an enlightened state of ascetic living.
Now, however, repayment of the Greek debt is equivalent to slavery-like conditions offensive not merely to the suffering people of Greece but to civilization.
What better way to pay tribute to a tragically murdered journalist, in Russia, than by restoring dignity to a profession that has increasingly come under fire, and under manipulation by a government not unlike that of Vladimir Putin's, one that has repeated demonstrated how it would like to stifle not merely dissent, but the free flow of information.
