Sentence examples for merely the act from inspiring English sources

Or merely the act of a man wrecked by months of exhaustion that "seemed to calcify within him, then crack"?

It is not merely the act of killing but a real or feigned emotional indifference to the taking of human life that consolidates status in the cartel.

A former nightclub dancer, whose stage name was Ruby the Heartstealer, she denies having any kind of sexual relations with him and says the thousands of euros he gave her were merely the act of a benevolent paternal figure.

An extraordinary 44 per cent of those 'procedures' turn out not to be what most members of the public imagine as an 'animal experiment' but merely the act of breeding transgenic creatures, mostly done by allowing mice to do what male and female mice do naturally anyway.

Strand's betrayal of his companions wasn't merely the act of a selfish coward, though Strand is both those things.

"Users have reported that merely the act of identifying which apps they want to use less creates a huge shift in their relationship with that app," notes Dunn.

His problem with Weibo is that users are content merely with the act of transmission".It doesn't bring about any real change or progress.

But here, it is merely the opening act.

The German invasion in September 1939 was merely the opening act of the tragedy.

This death, however, is merely the first act — we aren't getting the full story.

Yesterday's abandonment, via the breezy aside that "the margin will be what the margin will be," was merely the final act.