Sentence examples for merely emblematic from inspiring English sources

Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, the center's research director and the principal author of the study, said that Renfro was merely emblematic of the wider problem the center has seen.

And if these two houses are "tropical magical realist" environments, as Mr. Bookhardt would say, they are merely emblematic of the sort of rotting grandeur, the embrace of the inevitability of decay, that pervades the city.

They're merely emblematic of a culture, and a family of creatives that refuse to mature.

"The discomfort he has created in the Republican caucus is merely emblematic of the ambivalence national Republicans feel toward the movement.

The sight was brief but emblematic.

In his hands, a peat bog is not merely an emblematic feature of the Irish landscape; it is also a spiritual quagmire, evoking the deep ethical conundrums that have long pervaded the place.

Old River, 1973, was merely the most emblematic place and moment where, in the course of three centuries, failure had occurred.

Nicolson notes the era's growing taste for hyperbole (" 'I simply adore loganberries, they are so exquisitely subtle!' ") and here and there she falls victim to something of the same tendency, discerning the emblematic in the merely incidental: the weather can be, after all, just the weather, not a portent.

But the start was still emblematic.

Dr. Snider and his allies say that Braille literacy is emblematic of the view that sightlessness is merely a human characteristic, not a disability.

Other plotlines, however, Schrader just puts out there, in scenes that point to emblematic traits, some of which have more thematic than dramatic significance, others of which merely ramp up pathos.