Sentence examples for merely pleased from inspiring English sources
"I'm not merely pleased," Mr. McDermott said tonight.
The kind of narrative conceit that can grip and gratify onstage has a nasty habit, once transferred to film — a more ductile and silvery medium, less tolerant of constructed argument — of seeming merely pleased with itself.
Similarly, in talking about the success of his two productions, which could not be more dissimilar -- Cole Porter's light confection "Kiss Me, Kate and Michael Fraynn's weighty new play about nuclear physics, "Copenhagen" -- Mr. Blakemore, who turns 72 next month, sounded merely pleased that the shows managed to find their way to Broadway within months of each other.
Captain America: The First Avenger was considered a big hit despite "only" grossing $371m worldwide on a $140m budget, with most pundits merely pleased that a movie about a specifically American hero could make more overseas than it did in the United States.
He looked sheepish but pleased.
Sestero looked anything but pleased.
Marin the Younger, by contrast, has encountered no war, imprisonment or literary stars; has had no long marriage; and is pleased merely to have increased his freelance rate to $1.50 a word.
But he sounds pleased, too.
