Sentence examples for merely a boy from inspiring English sources

I was never a fan - I wanted to be merely a boy, not an anarchist - so let us concentrate for now on the delightful Ramona, who has "brown hair, brown eyes and no cavities".

It was more than merely a boy's face.

The older woman, if she is what some relationship experts refer to as the "Samantha prototype," a reference to the "Sex and the City" character who has a strong sexual appetite for younger men — and anyone else for that matter — may well be looking merely for a boy toy.

Some skeptics also say that Koenig hasn't done much with the head start, that he is merely a party boy — the Paris Hilton of Germany, as one art-world figure said to me, with an anonymous unkindness that seems typical of the trade.

After all, he is merely a choir boy - aka code for a good Italian Catholic male.

But a boy who was sitting in the room on a folding chair when the car drove in believes the man was merely drunk.

The soldiers are on leave, but "Sunset," with its symbolic title, is not merely about a boy-meets-girl flirtation.

But what if Apple were merely a convenient whipping boy?

That said, Jada Pinkett Smith is diverting as mob boss Fish Mooney and executive producer Bruno Heller appears to have a reasonable grasp on the challenges faced by a show in which Bruce Wayne is merely a grieving young boy, and not the center of the action.

To appreciate this "Robin Hood," you have to buy the sultry Marian escaping from the baron and somehow joining Robin and the Merry Men without them knowing she is female, merely by dressing as a boy and lowering her voice.

Bizet had already shown a gift for composition far superior to that of a merely precocious boy.