Sentence examples for merely to experience from inspiring English sources

Geometry assists us in the application of this law … ; but still the discovery of the law itself is owing merely to experience, and all the abstract reasonings in the world could never lead us one step towards the knowledge of it".

The Abasto Plaza Hotel caters both to tourists who want to dance, and those who merely want to experience it as part of their trip to Buenos Aires.

The infrastructure of that era continues to communicate the not-so-subtle message that these neighborhoods are not places to experience, but merely to pass through.

And so, the good judge may provide standards that are neither completely independent of the sentiments we are fitted to experience, nor merely hostage to the common run of passions.

Not being content to merely imitate Muhammad, they want to experience what Muhammad experienced, embody what he embodied.

Kabbalists, like their Sufi counterparts in Islam, aim to experience God directly, not merely read about Him.

Even in the context of a series committed to brutally haunting imagery, the scene manages to leave an exceptional chill, not for the obvious suggestion that death can amount merely to another consumer experience, but for the idea that something beyond detachment — perversion in fact — is required to remain inured to the horrors of loss.

He sent Thorpe to Sydney merely to gain competition experience at senior national level.

One explanation for this finding may be that the treatment procedure is not restricted to merely experiencing the non-occurrence of a US when being presented with the CS.

Rather than merely to reflect or parenthesise experience, the expressionists wanted desperately to create it, and looking at their best work it is often possible to feel that they succeeded.

The conditions in which sunbathing is pleasant are occasional; the conjunction of a light breeze with a sun not too violent makes exposure of the body agreeable and probably healthful; but to strip and grill on a blazing, windless day is, in my experience, merely to provoke an ache of the head and a rawness of the back.