Sentence examples for merely happen from inspiring English sources

But in the jury room, the thought cannot be avoided, since there you learn that justice doesn't merely happen (neatly, reliably, like a crystal taking shape in a distant vacuum); justice is, rather, done, made, manufactured.

Then Schumer plays his second: the fact that New York did not merely happen to find itself in the path of destruction but was put there because of what the city means to America.

The plot is twisty but not particularly engrossing, events merely happen as things in life happen, and matter as much or as little as everything real matters or does not.

She has said that she personally prefers to read stories that way, dipping in at random instead of following along sequentially, and this structure also echoes her view of the world, in which events seldom follow a plotline but merely happen, suddenly and inexplicably.

Though I feel certain he will allow that WH Auden put it rather more elegantly when he wrote that art is a way of "breaking bread with the dead", an antidote to what GK Chesterton called "the arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around".

The bulk of these are traditional particles, notably carbon black, silver halide emulsion crystals, and pigments, which are in no sense engineered with atomic precision; some of them merely happen to fall within the accepted range of nano-objects.

Here, the hero's preexisting and unchanging character (stoical, wise, fearless) determines the outcome in advance, while time is reduced to an empty series of relatively independent happenings that the hero merely happens to pass through (Bakhtin, 1981; see also Holquist, 1990, pp. 109 110).

Clyde merely happened to be in the way.

Ireland merely happened to offer an extreme case, where "everyone knew".

That success had happened; it had not followed; and he didn't deserve any praise for what had merely happened.

He had the misfortune to be an excellent composer who merely happened to be Czech.