Some are merely dialogues, amusing teenage versions of Beckett.
Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has played a more active role in diplomatic negotiations over the last few weeks, calling for sanctions against the Ukraine while Merkel merely emphasised dialogue.
The authors, however, call merely for a dialogue on pricing to begin.
There is no quoted dialogue, merely an author's summary which floats confidently between characters.
Bolivia is not merely asking for dialogue, which Chile would enter into, but negotiations under court order "with only one outcome".
But much of the dialogue is merely projected onto the back of the stage, as the action comes to a halt after a rather bizarre scene in which a Chaplin movie morphs into a scene from some battle film, inspiring Nikolai to slash away at the screen, presumably in distress at the painful memories of war it evokes.
He did not seem to notice, merely kept up his dialogue about music, art and books.
So far it has merely asked for a dialogue with Somaliland and Puntland.
That the dialogue is merely functional is not a cosmetic flaw.
In "New Bedlam," however, the tendencies toward endless passages explaining industry minutiae and gratuitously editorializing dialogue that merely winged Flanagan's first novel here prove lethal.
