Sentence examples for merely fitting from inspiring English sources

Already a sort of creeping paralysis appears to be overtaking United's transfer business, with a club formerly famous for bold and imaginative captures merely fitting in with the plans of Everton (Marouane Fellaini), Chelsea (Mata) and now Rooney and his advisers.

These writers hold that only moral properties in the "obligation family," properties like those of being obligatory, being permissible, being required, and being right (where being right involves a constraint on conduct, rather than being merely fitting), are to be understood in theological voluntarist terms.

Like liquid -- or better, gas -- she merely fit her singing to the container provided.

He, like the rest of the characters, merely fits like a puzzle piece into the scheme of the plot.

In adapting stories by Bruno Schulz, Mark Wheatley and the show's director Simon McBurney, have found a subject which doesn't merely fit their style: it explains and declares it.

Yet throughout the trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors sought to portray the Liu campaign as condoning, if not outright orchestrating, questionable practices designed to maximize fund-raising, and that the two defendants' actions merely fit into a larger pattern.

Spending time, allowing yourself space… these might not be valued commodities in today's frantic music scene, but they'll hopefully be what helps Trouble in Paradise stand out rather than merely fit in.

It's thin, yes, but not quite as thin as the Air (the Air fits in an envelope, the X300 merely fits on top of a newspaper or whatever that is on the left there — hell, maybe it IS an envelope).

The inability to see Stupak's entrenched position and deal with him appropriately merely fits within that broader pattern.

Tom: When I was in the Navy, most of the other Enlisted folks got tattoos as a rite of passage; some to merely fit it, some to prove they could handle the pain.

Yes, it requires a huge level of trust in one's employees, but perhaps if more emphasis were placed on recruiting the right kinds of employees and then treating them as truly valued members of the team -- as opposed to hiring those who merely fit the bill on paper -- a more focused, flexible workforce would emerge.