Sentence examples for merely false from inspiring English sources

To sort the imagination of alternative worlds from merely false descriptions of this one.

It is a fairy tale in the worst sense, in that it is not merely false, but rather almost the inverse of the truth.

Through this delicate poetry, the samba was not denouncing traditional history as merely false, but as partial, a narrative that was carefully built to legitimize some aspects of the Brazilian past while erasing others, most notably the struggles and resistance of women of color.

"The argument that the world exhibits a completely different power structure is at least grossly hyperbolic and more probably merely false," said John Gray, a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, who has published his own critique of globalization, "False Dawn" (New Press, 1999).

The great preponderance of this so-called truth is a confection of outright lies not merely false but, more perniciously, a form of unreality, imposed with such relentlessness and violence on a people hermetically sealed from any alternative sources of information that it has become their only reality.

The great preponderance of this so-called truth is a confection of outright lies — not merely false but, more perniciously, a form of unreality, imposed with such relentlessness and violence on a people hermetically sealed from any alternative sources of information that it has become their only reality.

It shows that Theorem 2.3 is false if the space is merely assumed to be pathwise connected rather than rectifiably pathwise connected.

As the education blogger Disappointed Idealist notes, the U-turn is merely a false retreat.

Meanwhile, the vice-president has insisted the inspectors would merely provide "false comfort".

By then it may be clear whether London 2012 was a bright new day for athletics in Britain or merely a false dawn.

This anti-Semitism became racist when "the belief took hold that Jews were intrinsically and organically evil rather than merely having false beliefs and wrong dispositions".