Sentence examples for merely sweet from inspiring English sources

The klezmer melodies of the third movement had neither wit nor bite: they were merely sweet.

Mr. Gemignani's "Buddy's Blues" was stylistically namby-pamby, and Ms. Baldwin's "I Remember" merely sweet.

The thing I love about honey is that it isn't merely sweet.

Any recipe that calls for a kilo of caster sugar is not for the merely sweet of tooth: you need to be a serious sugar junkie to enjoy this in bulk.

(Elijah Wald had told me that even the harshest narcocorridos are merely sweet-sounding polkas if you don't know the words).

He was once known to Haitians merely as "Sweet Micky", a popular singer with a reputation for bawdy stage antics.

Up until then it rarely occurred to anyone that he had to be a ruthless competitor, not merely a sweet-talking orator, to reach the top of a political machine even rougher than the Clinton machine he had brought down.

Maybe she will in years to come, but on this debut she's merely a sweet-voiced muse, singing small, pretty songs with aplomb, but not always mastering them.

Pay Per View is merely a sweeter icing than the one on their existing cake.

The camera lingers on all of these interactions as if they were surprising and sweet, but the effect is merely depressing, as all home movies are.

Allow to cool to being merely warm (check the sweet potatoes or the bottom of the pan, not the marshmallow topping, which due to being insulated will be cool on the outside when the inside is still hot) and serve.