Sentence examples for merely speak from inspiring English sources

This is absurd, of course: actors merely speak their lines; they don't invent them.

The people in this novel don't merely speak in clichés, their every action is clichéd.

Jesus, the fulfillment of the Prophets, does not merely speak the word of God; he is the word of God.

Staunton, so meek in "Vera Drake," doesn't merely speak her brazen lines; she launches them, with devastating precision.

When the singing of a Jewish cantor strikes Judd as long-winded, Judd does not merely speak of boredom.

Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.Does Mr Gore merely speak sweetly to all sides?

Mr Donovan merely speaks of "considerable disagreement".

This time, he said, she was merely speaking in shorthand.

The culminating chorus, "Ruht wohl" ("Rest well"), should be melting; here it merely spoke of consolation.

She ended with a flourish, which might have been trumpeted rather than merely spoken.

Or Bill Gates, who is not merely speaking this year, but apparently "curating" his session?