They don't try to stop the fighting; they merely vanish, then reappear on the ruined streets.
The others simply vanished.
In "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Cullen Murphyy tries to find out why people once did expect the Spanish Inquisition, and if the inquisitors have vanished or merely changed clothes.
The Stooges were merely a footnote to a vanished era when their luck kicked in again, flinging them from retirement to the fringes of television, which gobbled up the films as cheap fare to distract baby boomers from their homework.
Early on in the 18-mile race, my resolve vanished and I struggled merely to finish.
The sense of it as an important youth movement has vanished, possibly for ever, but the music itself is not dead, merely polarised.
Merely to enter the hall was to visit a vanished world.
Yiddish today is often looked on with nostalgia, but many of the works actually written in Yiddish were not merely about, to use photographer Roman Vishniac's phrase, "a vanished world".
Partially exempt from the smoking ban (via a loophole that allows you to claim you're merely sampling prospective purchases), J J Fox is a relic of a vanished London tradition – the tobacco house – of which there were over 7,000 in 1614.
And anyway, they say, his ambivalence, whether real or merely perceived, may well vanish soon.
Emerging-market share prices rose by 30% between December and May.Such gains vanished quickly in the May and June turmoil, but the sell-off was not devastating merely a healthy correction, thinks the Bank of England.
