Sentence examples for merely notional from inspiring English sources

The figure is merely notional.

Can we ever win real rather than merely notional equality?

Credit insurers are increasingly having to find money to pay claims that once seemed merely notional.

It may, and in fact often does, refer to a merely notional entity the image which acculturated man forms of himself, when he starts to philosophize.

Finally, there's a sense that any firm line between painting and sculpture is, for this determinedly unconventional and unsentimental artist, merely notional, if it ever existed at all.

This vision of defeat and self-destruction in love is Shakespeare's conversion into human truth of the merely notional villainy of the original bad judge.

It is merely a notional point of reference, a common node of all representational series (SW VI: 168).

Additionally they assert that this is merely a notional change and not an ontological change, i.e., a certain item is found to occur, where one expected something else to occur.

But a notional Lahore fixer rigging a Test match?

But they were not the notional stars of the film.

Clearly the play's most intriguing figure is Barry whom Douglas Hodge plays superbly as a weak, biddable man whose life and career are both on the skids; merely to watch Hodge's eyes flicker with greed at a notional fee for a post-prandial talk is an education in the art of acting.