Sentence examples for merely serious from inspiring English sources

The cuts were due to be "savage" on Saturday but merely "serious" a few days later.

However, they last long enough to create hazards and produce consequences that range from the merely serious to the fatal.

These councils, moreover, were not merely serious and ennobling; they held secrets available only to the astute, secrets the knowledge of which could transform life from a chaotic miscellany into a crucially heroic experience.

(Mr. Arriaga's best script, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who also starred.) In this case, with Mr. Arriaga in the director's chair for the first time, the acting is merely serious.

Grantham, the founder and chief strategist of the asset-management firm GMO, was reading aloud from a rough draft of his next quarterly letter to investors, in which he ranks some long-term crises of resource limitation along a scale from "merely serious" to "dangerous".

The opportunity is the chance to paint the Tories as not merely serious about cutting borrowing but ideologically obsessed with it.

"Like so many of those who have worked with him repeatedly over the decades, I've found him to be not merely thoughtful, serious and honest, but extraordinary and even inspiring in his thoughtfulness, seriousness and honesty.

It's all very well to cite the textbook claim — as Perry actually did in response to my earlier column — that price gouging merely avoids "serious misallocation of resources". The issue for government officials tasked with managing a disrupted market is who receives the newly allocated resources.

But if it's serious, merely complaining will not be enough.

For now, merely presenting a serious challenge to YouTube is a good thing for competition and for video on the Web.

This chapter deals with improper grounding practices that may lead to problems in installations, sometimes merely annoying, with serious consequences to equipment.