Sentence examples for make it merely from inspiring English sources

Though Dr. Koplewicz admitted a knack for schmoozing ("I'm very good at fund-raising," he said), his main mission in life, he contended, is to remove any stigma from mental illness among children and teenagers, make it merely something to be managed and overcome as it was with dyslexia or attention deficit disorder before it.

When one is thinking that some given experience or item x is G, and one is directly aware of the uncertain or not-fully-transparent character of one's awareness, this can make it merely probable for one that x is G.

Which makes it merely funny rather than hilarious.

They've taken a subject that is inexhaustible and made it merely exhausting.

The crass game show "Supermarket Sweep" was his too, but he let ­everyone know he'd made it merely to pay the bills in a coarsening television landscape.

But Discovery was earning only 2 to 7 cents a month per subscriber for Discovery Health, analysts estimate, making it merely a shack on Mr. Zaslav's beachfront.

To be a secular bloc made Allawi's list more nationalist and hence more palatable; to be Sunni made it merely one constituency among three, and a junior one at that.

Baseball's is the endless and ever-growing delays that come from ringing pitchers in and out for lefty-righty matchups; basketball's are those twenty-minute-long final two minutes, with all the dull strategic fouling; my beloved ice hockey's is the needless violence that, meant to keep the game honest, ends up making it merely brutal.

In parallel fashion, if there really were some evidence, however slight, that there is an evil genius making it merely appear that there are hands, then, and only then, would the Academic Skeptic legitimately require that S eliminate that possibility prior to being justified in believing that she has hands.

Seward submitted it to Lincoln, who, realizing that the Union was in no position to battle both the South and Britain, toned it down considerably, and made it merely a memorandum for Adams's guidance.

Limiting our analysis and inquiry to gun control simplifies a very complex problem and makes it merely a confrontation between the pro-gun folks and the anti-gun folks.