She carried a gun and drove a fabulous roadster with abandon -- not merely "as fast as the law allowed".
Church leaders are merely as penitent as they need to be to protect the institution.
Some of her songs were written out as traditional sheet music, some merely as chords — she has no one single way of working, though she typically annotates and sketches a song before recording.
But she is not merely fond, as she puts it, of the "wanton use of first person" — she throws herself into the story.
That would be Juliette Binoche, who stars as an antiques dealer, merely identified as "she," who lives in Tuscany.
In any event, Ms. Kaplan's client having been taxed in excess of $300,000 merely because, as she said, her partner's name was Thea, not Theo, had all the concrete injury needed for standing in federal court, and I leave to others the appropriateness of according legislative standing to members of the House.
This is why for four hours, I administered first aid when I should have been teaching classes, under the watchful eye of the closest thing we have to a nurse, who when I pulled the boy with the sores against his will into her care, merely smiled as she looked them over.
Cate Blanchett and I are trying to determine whether she's a fake - or whether she's merely as hidden from herself as she seems to be hidden from strangers who would like to capture her essence over breakfast at the Chateau Marmont, tape recorder and pen at the ready.
Once regarded merely as a counterpuncher, she has become more aggressive.
Merely by living as she does, as all of us do with our air-freighted fruit and phone upgrades, Hegarty is willing death upon the planet.
