"merely true" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something is true, but perhaps not significant or important. For example: - His statement was merely true, but it didn't provide any new information. - The argument is merely true, it lacks depth and evidence. - She made a point that was merely true, it didn't add much to the conversation.
That isn't merely true because art school graduates rarely go on to become full-time artists.
It seems unfair to ask that she take a further step into the imaginative and transformational, into life that is not merely true but riveting and magical.
Just when we begin to wonder what purpose this list serves, we're stopped short by an utterance that in another context might seem merely true: "You were beautiful".
Mr. McDowell gets to proclaim, "Bad taste is the petrol that drives the American dream," which is supposed to be funny but seems merely true.
But Whedon finds it uniquely forceful: using its vivid strokes, you can be speculative, philosophical -- and create stories that are not merely true to life but are metaphors for a deeper level of human experience.
The intuitive rationale of this rule is that, in a sound axiomatic system, it is expected that every instance of a theorem α will be not merely true but necessarily true and in that case every instance of Lα will be true.
Whether this is miraculous or merely bizarre but true, I have no choice.
We want our stories to be not merely persuasive, but true.
This arouses not merely satisfaction, but true inner pleasure, which often empowers the entire soul, and the enjoyment of which is happiness" (ibid., pp. 309 10).
Importantly, Fisher's subtypes had the same age of onset, strongly suggesting that these observed differences were not merely alternative stages, but true variants of AD.
But these discs are merely being true to its central character, as Armstrong contracted himself out so often.
