Sentence examples for merely posed from inspiring English sources

Doubt replaced belief; death could not promise redemption but merely posed a riddle "of which the slain / sole solvers are".

Frazier puts definitively to rest any suspicion that Moore merely posed as a roue for scandalous effect.

I merely posed the medically sound possibility that if he had syphilis, as his friend and physician Janos Plesch posited, it could have had an impact on the health of his first- and third-born children.

Milli Vanilli once won a best new artist award even though it turned out the duo didn't actually sing on their album, but merely posed for the cover (the award was later rescinded). .

I merely pose the query, he said.

Throughout "The Rodin Project" is the uneasy impression that the dancers are merely posing; at times, it looks like a bodybuilding competition.

The picture here is a photograph in which the reading subject merely poses with a copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management.

Even if the attackers were merely posing as Iraqi soldiers, since uniforms can be easily bought in stores, the episode could further undermine the trust of the population.

and its various lucrative offshoots, he is, after all, a fully accredited member of the Washington establishment, who is merely posing as an insurgent.

Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly described Mr. McCain as a liberal who was merely posing as a conservative, a message that seemed to work against the Arizona senator as he tried to court conservative voters in South Carolina.

A model is likely to arise from one of Avedon's cultivated pep talks with the idea that she really is lovely, and that, instead of merely posing, she is gloriously holding the center of an imaginary stage, free to act as her own dramatic impulses dictate.