Sentence examples for merely greater from inspiring English sources

The social parts of our brain are certainly larger than those of our closest relatives but is it merely greater size which makes us more altruistic?

Whether leaders of these devolutionary movements seek merely greater autonomy or outright secession, the tide of history for more than a century favors these causes.

There is some evidence that - despite Hitler and Stalin and Mao Zedong - society is progressing towards not merely greater prosperity but also higher moral standards.

Or merely just great customer service.

Jobs himself took over the latter project, insisting that the computer should be not merely great but "insanely great".

John Koppel [Letters, Nov. 24] perpetuates the misrepresentation that the television series "A History of Britain" offered merely "great person" hagiography and "national myth".

After all, playing for one's country is not just an honor — it's a way of filtering the greatest of the great players from the merely great players.

Somewhere between the merely great communicators and the secular saints are the exceptional politicians who, as Hillary put it then, "practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible".

Shenk doesn't neglect the take-home point we're all waiting for, even titling a chapter "How to Be a Genius (or Merely Great)." The answer has less in common with the bromides of motivational speakers than with the old saw about how to get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice.

In fact, his admission, coming just before arguably his most beloved song, Glacier, is the moment that tips his set over from merely great (split between pounding, techno-influenced tracks, during which Grant proves himself to be the very model of hip-shaking funkiness, and piano ballads, with his mordant lyrical wit amply on display) into something tumultuous.

One might also call this the absolutist conception of deontology, because such a view maintains that conformity to norms has absolute force and not merely great weight.