Sentence examples for merely honest from inspiring English sources

It is not enough, in this war of hoaxes and delusions and perpetuated lies, to be merely honest.

"I don't think Basim's work is at all defeatist," Kholeif says, merely "honest and sincere".

In 1983, the revelation of Bishop's sexual identity prompted Adrienne Rich, our leading feminist poet, to discern qualities of "outsiderhood" and "marginality" throughout the poems; Bishop's work now appeared to be not merely good but "remarkably honest and courageous," and Bishop herself became a contemporary heroine.

Just honest.

The younger generation is merely more honest, not more licentious, Will Durant counseled.

Leeds suspected mind games, but for the first half it turned out that the Australian champions were merely being honest as the Rhinos romped to a 26-6 lead.

When Prescott admitted on the Today programme that his income and lifestyle had made him middle class, he was merely being honest.

Still, those apparently unwhitewashed minutes were welcome, because they seemed deeply rather than merely superficially honest in their observations and revelations.

Jackson was merely as honest as he could be without paying a hefty price, and gave basketball consumers valuable insight into his place with the Bucks and the direction of the franchise in general.

Arjen Robben insists he was merely being honest by admitting he had gone down too easily in Holland's win over Mexico, after Fifa confirmed the winger would not be punished for diving.

Anyway, in 1985 Shawn wrote a quite famous play called Aunt Dan and Lemon, which the Telegraph's Charles Spencer summarises thus: "A sickly, anorexic woman nicknamed Lemon Jane Horrockss) describes her childhood memories of a charismatic, rightwing aunt, and in a long climactic speech expresses her approval of the Nazis, who, she suggests, were merely more honest than the rest of us".