Sentence examples for merely to exist from inspiring English sources

It's almost as if the single criterion for being watched these days is merely to exist – a sort of reverse quantum physics powered by tedium.

Davis erupts with rage at his sister's suggestion that he quit music and return to the merchant navy: that, he says, is merely to "exist".

In his beautiful book The Moth Snowstorm, Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait.

Author Mark Katz explains that "for the pioneering hip-hop DJs, merely to exist in the Bronx was to experience near-constant noise.

Many ordinances have nothing to do with any conduct but make it a crime merely to exist in the wrong place or time, such as vagrancy, loitering, curfew, park hour limitation or trespass laws.

Little angers non-Muslim Europeans more than the fact that groups like the Caliphate State are not merely permitted to exist, but are even protected by laws their members claim not to believe in.

One alternative was annihilationism, which held that lost souls would merely cease to exist.

· There is to be a World Philosophy Day, which I guess we can spend debating whether the day actually exists or merely appears to exist.

But the dogmas of today are those of "finance capitalism", based on hypothetical money that is merely deemed to exist, which gave us the bubble that has now burst; and of neoliberalism, the so-called "free" global market, which demands ruthless, all-against-all competition (unless, of course, you compete well enough to fix the rules).

It's merely going to exist alongside Netflix until AT&T gets bored of it, and either rolls it into its existing offering as a nice add-on, or decides to do away with it.

Every nation, in merely deciding to exist, becomes brutally egotistical; in this even Christianity has to take a back seat.