Sentence examples for may merely seem from inspiring English sources

Austin's point seems to be that, just as a church can merely look like a barn without there being anything that is a barn, the table that we see in Hume's example may merely seem to get smaller, without there being anything that actually gets smaller.

Now, to many, it merely seems slapdash.

As noted, however, it merely "seemed" best.

He merely seems grandiloquent and aggrieved — a blowhard.

What is real and what merely seems real?

Given the stakes, the most surprising part of our perpetually dirty political system is that all the slings and arrows that once cut so deeply may later seem merely funny, or only instructive.

Columbus's America, and Bellow's, may now seem merely a symbol.

What happened in the later 1980s may now seem merely water under the bridge.

Thus, while interindividual variability increases from newborn to adult blood, the underlying methylation changes may not be merely stochastic, but seem to be orchestrated as clusters of adjacent CpG sites.

It may seem merely technical, but the mess says much about the problems of being a global financial centre, where foreign teams come to play and the home referee deals with the damage.

But what is there to do? …The act of helping others may seem merely compassionate and decent — but research indicates that it also produces important physical and mental health benefits for caregivers.