Sentence examples for merely a dream from inspiring English sources

It is merely a dream," he said.

Everything else," he added, "is merely a dream or illusion".

Birdsong, a canopy bed, fresh muffins and orange juice – it is all merely a dream.

Yet, even as the title figure revels in the vision of two nymphs, he fears that they were merely a dream, flitting out of the "mass of ancient night".

The United States, he implied, had walked into a trap, and President Bush's vow to topple the Taliban and Al Qaeda was "merely a dream which will not come true".

During my 20 years in water supply and sanitation, I have seen a sufficient number of successful projects, in many of the least developed countries, to convince me that safe sanitation and drinking water for all is not merely a dream.

In his book, "The Epic of America," the historian James Truslow Adams wrote, "It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain the fullest stature of which they are innately capable".

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

But the suspicion that the action's catalyst may have merely been a dream only further undermines the story's tension.

She's living proof that when the yes campaign persuaded young people that political engagement was worthwhile, they weren't merely selling a dream.

Instead, everything boils down to a dreary revolutionary faith, which, like the chandelier, is merely a tragic dream, cumbersome and impractical.