Sentence examples for merely a machine from inspiring English sources

No, not Deep Blue, which is merely a machine within the Machine.

The guitar is no longer merely a machine that makes sounds.

The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes believed that anything without a soul was merely a machine - an automaton.

Often the product is not merely a machine, but also a panoply of services that go with it.Last year they took a beating.

At the time, there was no internet and, for me, the computer was merely a machine on which I could play 2D video games.

But when we swiped our tickets before the scanner at the entrance, the woman merely used a machine to snap our portrait.

Even Lee, head of narrative, a man who spends most of Season 2 bitching, moaning and avoiding bullets, literally sacrifices his own life in the final moments of the season to give Maeve, a woman he once referred to merely as a "machine" a fighting chance.

If the brain was merely a biological machine, there was no theoretical reason that it could not be replicated, or even surpassed, much the way a jet could outfly a falcon.

To see myself as a creature who has the kind of value Kant calls "dignity" I must not see myself merely as a machine-like product of the physical environment.

Mr Covey taught that employees were not merely cogs in a machine powered by rewards and punishments, but individuals.Mr Covey was influenced by Peter Drucker, the king of management theorists, who wrote in 1967 that "effectiveness…is a habit".

a) The town councillors b) The angry demonstrators Levesque, Davis, and Morgenstern have developed a set of similar problems, designed to be easy for an intelligent person but hard for a machine merely running Google searches.