Sentence examples for merely real from inspiring English sources

Even in dreams, Waldrop is stuck with the merely real.

Given the success of digitalized movies like the "Star Wars" series, the merely real could soon be viewed as too boring to appear on film at all.

They lead lives of exceptional dignity and exceptional aloneness, a quality you see in the work of artists like Katy Grannan, Rineke Dijkstra and Eija-Liisa Ahtila, whose subjects, by virtue of being stripped down and free of props, seem to us not merely real but more perfectly alive.

But were all those features merely real-estate gimmicks designed to sell more houses?

The 1,500 bottles currently in the cases are merely props, but real Burgundies and Bordeaux will replace them by November, with the debut of the restaurant, SHO Shaun Hergatt, said Jane Klaris, the sales director.

Faced with the issue of accounting for the apparent phenomena of mind-body interaction, those who subscribed to "Cartesian interactionism" (following Williams 1978, 287; Williams actually describes the situation as a "scandal") held that the causal interaction is not merely apparent but real.

Moreover, having lived under a harsher regime and having suffered not merely relative deprivation, but real starvation, North Koreans have even more reason than East Germans to rush through any opening.

Like many of his peers in the interactive media industry, Berlow asserts that the narrow casting capabilities of digital media have reached a point where strategic alliances between television and Internet media companies are no longer merely exploratory experiments, but real necessities.

It merely transfers real wealth across time.

"Partnerships" of donors can become an expensive end in themselves, merely delaying real action.

On Earth, money merely moves real resources — sometimes through the souls and votes of politicians, as my fellow blogger Simon Johnson has noted — much as magnetic force can move paper clips.