Notwithstanding the first appearance of this remark, it had in fact no weight, as the Delegates however chosen, did not represent the people merely as so many individuals; but as forming a Sovereign State.
Oh, but things were about to get more cringeworthy at Arie's house, where Emily was set to meet his parents — whom he described merely as "so European".
The phlegmatic and somewhat dimwitted narrator turns out to be a useful device: Lynch sees things merely as they are so that the reader can feel the satisfaction of seeing through them.
Mayor Springmeier keeps a shotgun and a pistol handy, "merely as a precaution". So does nearly everyone else encountered here except Connie Rainwater, the assistant city clerk, and the Rev.
The next day, a medic inserted an I.V. in Jamadi's arm, put the body on a stretcher, and took it out of the prison as if Jamadi were merely ill, so as to "not upset the other detainees".
He saw it as a job, not a way of life, and he was ready for a new, lower-paying one: a career in television, not merely as a sportscaster, like so many former jocks, but as a news personality.
I shall continue to do so merely as shorthand.
Despite this, when Caracciola socialised with the upper Nazi echelons he did so merely as an "accessory", not as an active member, and at no time was he a member of the Nazi Party.
purple-and-gold, the Seawolves did not merely survive so much as thrive, outhitting L.S.U. in the series, 35-15.
Indeed it affirmed their right to do so even when the attacks are "merely" verbal - so long as the response is also limited to speech.
This is not merely "Yet another case of Political Correctness," as so many commentators claim.
