Such qualities shrivelled in the heat of Chelsea's effort, inevitably, because what we saw here was not merely a division of class but another concept, and another set of means, applied to the question of how you play the game.
It is legitimate to argue that anti-Semitism was far from the center of Eliot's thought and art, that it was merely a common class prejudice or a questionable outgrowth of his theology.
The crisis in soaring drug prices has produced not merely a new class of public enemies to skewer -- step forward, Martin Shkreli! -- but the best evidence yet that the nation's healthcare regulatory priorities are out of whack.
Tony Blair's educational background is often cited as evidence of poshness, but in truth the prime minister is merely a middle-class professional.
Getting people properly seated is often a matter requiring not merely a first-class mailing list and diplomatic skills worthy of the Hapsburg court, but a whip and a chair.
This burden of fraudulence, of needing to keep some lumbering secret self forever under wraps, was not merely a matter of class anxiety.
An active, modern Solidarity union, with members fighting for workers' rights, is considered merely a usurper's class of union, with unionists considered to be protesting merely to "gain profits for themselves", as an editorial at Gazeta Wyborcza put it.
The tragedy that extends through the lives of the Pickles and the Lambs is merely a reflection of a class, a city and a country trying to find its place.
It is not merely an issue of class and race but reaches across all races and classes, and involves the American ideal of adolescence itself.
He doesn't have to launch a class war — merely to engage one that's already underway.
Merely saying that members of a class have certain properties does not tell us whether, let alone why, they are mentally ill.
