Sentence examples for merely nothing from inspiring English sources

There's a great deal of tumult and thrashing in the action sequences but little sense of dynamic stillness; here, when there's no onscreen agitation, there's merely nothing happening.

For Heidegger, however, the "nothing" that is visible in Van Gogh's painting is not the haunting presence of these shoes' absent owner but, instead, the equally paradoxical (and no less phenomenologically discernible) appearance of that which is neither an entity nor merely nothing at all and yet conditions our experience of all entities.

Allmusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine commented that although the album was considered a "rebirth" for McEntire, he thought that some tracks were recorded for merely "nothing more than entertainment".

They could have merely said nothing.

Now, by merely saying nothing, a company can signal that its outlook is good without giving away the details.

Instead of merely doing nothing about the things that happen to her, she waits for life to happen and then whines about the outcome.

It was thought, even by some who knew of them, that they were merely études, nothing you'd want to perform in public.

Others fear (Iraq in mind) that involving the Security Council would mean military conflict; still others that the council would merely do nothing (China did not let it utter a peep over North Korea, preferring those six-party talks).In fact, the NPT accords Iran only a right to the "benefits of civilian nuclear power", and only then if it is keeping its non-nuclear promises.

Some, like William Atherton as an Environmental Protection Agency inspector who challenges the heroes's means of ghost disposal, seem out of place in what's supposed to be a comic setting; others, like Annie Potts as the bored secretary of the ghostbusters, merely have nothing to do.

Imitation works an effect worse than ignorance, not merely teaching nothing but engendering a positive perverted preference for ignorance over knowledge.

3. Mackie's claims about moral properties are not entirely clear, but his position seems to be, not merely that nothing has a moral property but that there are no moral properties.