Those words were merely underscored on Monday by the dark mood among Palestinians on the streets of Jerusalem, the city claimed by both sides as their capital.
Despite warnings that a deal would need to be brokered by Sunday night before the Asian markets opened, stocks merely stumbled on Monday — the type of weakness usually associated with soft corporate earnings instead of an economic apocalypse.
Officially, Mr. Obama was merely meeting on Wednesday night with an independent nonprofit group that supports his priorities, much as he would with any other outside group that stood with him on political issues.
Holtby is human: After posting consecutive shutouts in Games 6 and 7 against the Lightning to help the Capitals advance to their second Stanley Cup finals in franchise history, Braden Holtby looked merely average on Monday in allowing more goals than he had in any game this postseason.
Cecil was not merely evasive on Monday, which is par for the course when officials of multinationals are quizzed on tax, he was ignorant at an extraordinary level, unable even to tell the MPs how much tax is paid by Amazon's operation in Luxembourg, the base for its European businesses.
"It seems as if we ourselves placed the bomb," Mr. Arzalluz complained, after his party was criticized for merely suspending on Friday, and not fully breaking, its parliamentary deal for the support of a leftist Basque coalition, Euskal Herritarrok, that is widely considered to be the political wing of the rebels.
Senator John McCain scored some points on Thursday merely by acknowledging how much has to change.
But Pilobolus did a great deal more than merely show up on Monday in the opening program of its monthlong summer season at the Joyce Theater.
I did not recognize the salient features of either in Benjamin Millepied's merely sketchy performance on Friday.
C. Webb, V.C. and A.I. are not merely eye candy on Sunday anymore, ratings grabbers who offer little more than first-round exits in the spring.
Mark Reckless, a Tory MP and member of the home affairs select committee, was merely the latest on Saturday to lament the erosion of discretion at the borders.
