Sentence examples for merely happening from inspiring English sources

(In the one episode that most approaches magic realism, Erzulie possesses Zarité, but even then it's unclear whether this is merely happening in Zarité's imagination).

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.

Ageing is no longer something that merely happens to women's faces, hands or bodies.

What is the difference between an arm rising and my raising it, between what merely happens and what I do?

It is all about creating buzz and selling a product that merely happens to be indoor soccer.

Whether Pollock was actually influenced by Van Gogh, or merely happened upon a similar way of doing things through a similar artistic sensibility, is not clear.

The men, who were arrested, said that they did not know each other beforehand and had merely happened to be defacing the painting at the same time.