Sentence examples for merely documentary from inspiring English sources

Its purpose was not merely documentary.

Libby's work, in fact, goes far beyond the merely documentary.

Most political filmmakers are motivated not by a merely documentary curiosity but by an urge for advocacy.

She soon gained a reputation for her ability to work quickly, creating images which were not merely documentary but works of art in their own right.

Still, these wide-ranging photographs, whether merely documentary or works of art in themselves, are fun to look at, constituting an informal minihistory of art performances that stresses the camera's involvement as a recording instrument or an actual participant.

(The catalogue has 237 illustrations, is published by Cornell University and has a life of its own, independently of the exhibition. It costs $49.50 in hardback and $24.95 in paperback). The show also, and quite rightly, includes a lot of work that at first sight looks merely documentary.

New Jersey firms must merely produce documentary proof that their products are kosher.Private certifiers have stepped into the breach.

Laurent Bouzereau's film about Roman Polanski is not merely a documentary, but a full-length, wide-ranging interview with the man himself, carried out by his long-time friend and producing partner Andrew Braunsberg.

Here is Julia Roberts – or rather whatever her character is called, because for all we know from this trailer, it is merely a documentary, as you don't hear the character's name once, as far as I can tell.

The documentary was merely the two-hour audition.

Janet Frame was frustrated by the assumption that her fiction was merely a thinly veiled documentary report on her own life.