Sentence examples for merely so much from inspiring English sources

After one of the men falls, the survivor becomes fascinated by the "cunning delicacy" of his own fingers — by the subtlety of the mechanism that, for the wolves, would be merely so much protein.

No one knows yet whether Mr. Torricelli will be able to bully his way to another uncontested primary, or whether Mayor James E. McGreevey of Woodbridge, who believes Mr. Torricelli's talk of a statewide draft movement is merely so much huffing and puffing, will successfully call his bluff.

I mean that there is, for me, a defensible principle of autobiography where female experience is concerned; defensible in the sense that I personally would defend my decision to write about my own life, against the accusation that it is merely so much self-obsession or is the product of a self-obsessed culture.

He accepted an offer from Georg Joachim Göschen in Leipzig to publish his complete works in eight volumes, but so much was merely fragmentary that he was unsure what, if anything, he would be able to finish.

The skills you need merely to survive there … It's just so much more difficult than in the UK.

purple-and-gold, the Seawolves did not merely survive so much as thrive, outhitting L.S.U. in the series, 35-15.

To the carrying out of the job of criticizing the liberal imagination, literature has a unique relevance, not merely because so much of modern literature has explicitly directed itself upon politics, but more importantly because literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity and difficulty".

There's a good chance that all our protests will merely be so much sound and fury, signifying nothing, and the FCC — currently ruled by a 3-2 majoriny in favor of the rule — will adopt the rule as if they never heard a peep against it.

Our study based on PCR Array analysis and IHCs was merely not so much the analysis of gene function as the expression levels of mRNA and protein.

They're culturally conservative but not so much reactionary as merely cautious.

The individual — treacherous, Promethean, or merely unreasonable — is so much more than a single sin.