Sentence examples for merely obvious from inspiring English sources

Another drawback is that Shapiro often confuses simplicity with the merely obvious.

But even poems that seem clever the first time around dissolve, upon rereading, from simple to merely obvious.

But once the connection was forged, the links seemed not merely obvious but inevitable: the air passenger's upward journey in a pressurized cabin through an unbreathable and potentially murderous realm, the diver's downward journey, via air tank and weight belt, into a zone equally unbreathable and murderous — both journeys enacted in a blackening world where jitteriness bordered on hysteria.

According to Quine, Carnap has offered no reason for thinking that such truths are somehow vacuous as opposed to merely obvious.

The whole affair has caused introspection on my part, because as far as I can tell, Schiller said what is merely obvious, what I've said more times than I can count in my work as a preacher, writer, and activist.

But the effects of those changes are not likely to be merely the obvious ones.

Well, that's cheeky, since some of them wanted him fired a month ago and nothing has really changed, it has merely become obvious, even to ostriches.

China is consuming twice as much vegetable oil (instead of less healthy pork fat), 60% more poultry, 30% more beef and 25% more wheat, and these are merely the obvious foods.

That does not sound like the wildest of dreams, it merely sounds obvious, yet Holloway and Roberto Di Matteo deserve credit for having the courage of their convictions, refusing to follow everyone else's dull logic and not resorting simply to getting men behind the ball in an attempt to bore opponents into submission.

Hollywood's diversity problems are nothing new, and the Oscars are merely another obvious representation of them, but this same conversation has existed for years with little traction.

He was merely stating the obvious.