Sentence examples for merely happens from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

"The Glass House" explores the romantic relationship between a female client and a male architect that merely happens to have, at its center, one of the most famous houses in history.

But, it might be argued, falling is not an action, for it is something that merely happens to the man, and not an exercise of his agency; so his willingly forbearing from falling would be willingly forbearing from something that is not an action, and this is impossible (Stuart 2013: 405).

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.

(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).