Sentence examples for merely convenient from inspiring English sources

In so speaking, he is not just saying in a colorful way that perhaps the final cause does not exist, but rather that it is perhaps a mere fictum, that possibly all of our appeals to final causation are merely convenient fictions, able in principle to be replaced by appeals to other kinds of cause, those with real being, like efficient causes.

In 18th-century fiction, storms or balmy days are merely convenient for the story.

The question is whether the supposed good news that European leaders are trumpeting is merely convenient cover.

Moreover, in all democracies parties are merely convenient chimeras, evolved under the specific selection pressures of their respective electoral ecosystems.

But such occasions are merely convenient hooks on which to hang sophisticated exercises in composition and technique.

We are merely convenient targets for delivering a message against Maliki by certain groups, and perhaps by Maliki when he wants us to be targeted.

This is not merely a convenient coincidence.

But what if Apple were merely a convenient whipping boy?

For her, the database was merely a convenient repository of information.

At first the Swapper gun he wields is merely a convenient tool to create help.

All his talk of government reform, they say, was merely a convenient cover to mask oversized ambition.