Not merely does that paragraph deftly (yet not wholly unsympathetically) skewer Baez, for whose singing and persona I have not an iota of affection, but it tells us much more: what happens to people when they become "personalities" before they are ready for that, and what uses we make of them to our own ends.
middle initial a calling card of members Gorka says he's not a member but merely does that stuff to honor his father, who was tortured by Communists.
It is not simply a violation of their legitimate expectations; they might expect to be helped, for instance, and we are not merely refraining from doing that.
Doing that merely prevents (or more often delays) prices from finding the right level.
However, those lobbyists were not corrupt -- they were merely doing the job that their employers, the drug companies, and the insurers, paid them to do.
Instead of merely doing nothing about the things that happen to her, she waits for life to happen and then whines about the outcome.
That the A's would star in one against the Tigers is completely in character with their season and Phil Taylor writes on SI.com that they merely don't want that party to end.
In each case, the clocks got not merely simpler — though they did that, too — but progressively less figural.
Or does that merely serve to intensify the frustration for those who believe this is the team that the Giants should have been all along?
It seems insufficient to merely state, as Pickering does, that Fairbank and Morpurgo achieved their individual stabilizations and to leave the conflict unresolved.
Whenever you can link directly to evidence, rather than merely to publications describing evidence, do that.
