Sentence examples for merely surprised from inspiring English sources

Federer, if I'm reading this right, was not merely surprised by Djokovic's risky return.

Crittendon says that he was merely surprised by the outburst, and that no personal reflections entered into it.

Touring the electronic shops is still an entertainment in itself: I was merely surprised to discover I didn't actually want to buy anything.

Steward forthrightly explores every corner of the sexual universe available to him and is so unconcerned about exposure that when his lives finally collide — he's dropped by DePaul when administrators find out that, in between seminars, he's running Chicago's hottest rough-trade tattoo parlor — he's not especially embarrassed, merely surprised.

In fact, it had not even consulted them before David Cameron launched the Heywood Review in 2014, an episode which merely "surprised" the Indian authorities and did "no lasting damage" to UK-India relations.

Employers were not merely surprised or confused by law school graduate applying for a management job, they were outright hostile to it.

Judith McGrath Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands We old codgers are not complacent of youth (Owen Jones, Opinion, 4 February), merely slightly surprised that its radical aspirations are merely to have a slice of the middle-class lifestyle we enjoy and wish to preserve.

I briefly tried the contacts and the truth is they were like large pieces of grit in my eye and I merely looked surprised.

That is merely surprising.

He escalated the feedback to his superiors with a list of proposed solutions, but was surprised when it was merely filed away.

People will forgive a short man with a beautiful wife if he seems sufficiently surprised; Sarkozy seemed merely showy, and his energy, over time, merely antic and self-pleasing.