Sentence examples for merely hear from inspiring English sources

"Love was really a mission in making people listen and not merely hear".

We experience the face, whether we see the music being performed or merely hear it through a loudspeaker, and revel in its spite/surrender as a vicarious pleasure.

The rest end up around a corner or on the opposite side of a wall from him, and merely hear his voice.

ON the Saturday before the Great New Jersey Doctors' Walkout of 2003, a few minutes shy of midnight, a 5-year-old decided that it would be far more interesting to experience the spectacle in person than to merely hear about it on the news.

Sometimes, the Taliban thugs, enraged men with thick black beards and old rifles, barge in; at other times, we merely hear them as they issue orders and demands from behind the camera, an unnerving directorial ploy that places us in the position of controlling the women.

But I do not merely hear Beethoven's music, which I could do at home on my CD player, I hear it in a special way.

For a few, merely hearing the number is a shock.

But why orchestrating your own soundtrack should have more physical benefit than merely hearing similar music in the background is not altogether clear.

Can anyone listen to her performance of "If Love Were All" and think he is merely hearing someone sing a song?

Apparently, the killer question is: "Did you actually see the driver hit the horn?" And because they hadn't seen the offense, but merely heard it, the case was dismissed.

FRANK CARFARO is a 41-year-old bachelor of such varied and impressive accomplishments that merely hearing about them wears one out, and he enjoys a long soak in a hot bath now and then.