Sentence examples similar to merely alive from inspiring English sources

To be not merely beautiful but alive to the fact of beauty's slow fade, and to seem more beautiful because of such terrible knowledge: that is a gift most actors would prefer not to possess, but Lane has it, and she turns Toni's grab at love from a foolish fancy into a kind of tragic prayer.

That's why, I suspect, his metaphors have not merely poetic power but practical vitality, in the way that a horse is not only alive but usefully alive.

But remember that the subtitle of the show, which runs only through Sept. 10, is "Alive on Broadway," not merely "Live".

The Giants through this were not merely staying alive; they did some early damage, too.

The homeless and cash-starved are merely kept alive while nothing changes.

HAVANA — Yudelsy García O'Connor, the first baby known to have been born with H.I.V. in Cuba, is not merely still alive.

The driving factors are poles apart when striving to merely stay alive vs. building a business.

Gary Hunter, an exercise physiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has found that "high-intensity" exercise not only expends more energy during a workout, but also afterwards, by increasing the body's "resting metabolic rate," which is the number of calories one burns merely staying alive.