Sentence examples for merely sense from inspiring English sources

"As humans we can merely sense the existence of a higher truth, a greater coherence than ourselves, but we cannot see it face to face," he argues.

Elsewhere, she is not well served by prose that can be overwrought, and by a tendency to spell out internal states that the reader should merely sense.

Sometimes the threat is overt, as in pictures of animals and birds roped or wounded; in other images you merely sense that some horrible violence has occurred, or is about to happen.

But is disobedience really a way to do this?" Striking a characteristically inquisitive yet uncompromising stance, he asked whether such moves were aimed at "true renewal," or "do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the church in accordance with one's own preferences and ideas?" Instead, the pope said, Christ's concern "was for true obedience, as opposed to human caprice".

As Mike Liebhold and his colleagues at the Institute for the Future have discussed, computing will have evolved from merely sensing local information to analyzing it to being able to control it.

However, the demonstration of positive, non-metabolic effects on ego depletion when merely sensing carbohydrates orally contradicts this hypothesis.

The TV show documented the highly sensitive barbels and other sensory systems of the namazu, suggesting that instead of causing the quakes, it was merely sensing seismic tremors before people became aware of them.

She never looks at him, she merely senses his presence as he provides the occasional, invisible underpinning to her jumps.

Recent work has demonstrated that merely sensing the presence of males is sufficient to cause a decrease female longevity through the detection of male-specific chemical factors [ 38] and that seminal fluid can have effects that are independent of sperm [ 39].

Therefore, as described for E. coli plus Saccharomyces cerevisiae[ 62], and C. elegans[ 52], the observed phenomenon could extend beyond merely sensing and responding immediately to a given stimulus and could contribute to a predictive response strategy that uses the appearance of a stimulus as a cue that future conditions might be stressful.

A crucial notion in metaphysics is that of one entity depending for its existence upon another entity not in a merely causal sense, but in a deeper, ontological sense.