Sentence examples for merely matter from inspiring English sources

The facts don't merely matter.

Hughes says that: "litter is merely matter out of place.

To adapt the anthropologist Mary Douglas's classic formulation of dirt, litter is merely matter out of place.

It's simple enough to see creative writing degrees as merely matter of indulgence; to say that we students enter into these courses "for the love of it", because "there's nothing else in the world we could be doing".

For Ponty, the flesh that underlies the same corporeality is not merely matter but neither is spirit.

In this passage, Sagan explicitly states that even if humans are "merely matter," we still can find purpose, but it must be one that we work out for ourselves.

"He's a brilliant writer for whom spies are merely subject matter," Gottlieb said.

The variations from one region to another might be merely matters of nuance or effort.

The prohibition of gambling and usurious interests rates are not merely matters of private choice but must be applied to global finance in the public interest.

All sciences are merely matters of opinion (ch. 1), and they are neither good nor bad in themselves but only in the way they are used.

In a similar way, when I look at the spiritual and religious beliefs to be featured on Oprah's network I see humanity reaching beyond a merely matter-based interpretation of life towards a more spiritual ideal - often with great faith that doing so can make a difference.