Sentence examples for merely but from inspiring English sources

And women have always been poor, not for 200 years merely, but from the beginning of time.

Some made obvious points (images in twos and threes for Mr. Dresher's "Two Entwined," with its meshing of double and triple meters); others were merely — but loudly — decorative.

Thoreau decided that voting was too cheap and feeble a response to these grotesque atrocities, inflicted in his name, by his own government: "Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence".

It is in fact a spirit that he is trying to foster, the spirit of an awakened and informed intelligence playing upon not "literature" merely but theology, history, art, science, sociology, and politics, and in every sphere seeking "to see the object as in itself it really is".

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".

I say merely, but of course sculpting things at a near-atomic level is no joke.

Language is in sediment the implicit rules (not merely, but including, grammatical rules), but also explicit rules (discursive formations) that delimit a proper field of thought and study.

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.