Sentence examples for merely wondering from inspiring English sources

The Jamaat ud-Dawa volunteers I met offered only mild criticism of Musharraf and the Army, merely wondering why it had been so slow to organize.

This will be small comfort for anyone trying to sell in this environment, or merely wondering where the money for retirement will come from.

What I should have said was, "Yes". Having caught me still talking instead of listening to her again, she looked puzzled, an expression so uncommon in her case that it looked as if she was gripped when in fact she was merely wondering what had gone wrong.

German cyclist Kristina Vogel, who took gold ahead of Britain's Becky James in the women's sprint, definitely 100% wasn't casting aspersions on British bike success but merely wondering aloud: I don't want to accuse anyone of anything, but it's certainly questionable … I have no idea how they do it.

They defended the piece on their Web site: "[Deb] is merely wondering what such a business as Chaudhuri's consists of, and what its success means — both for the people involved, and for contemporary India and its love affair with capitalist success.

So, instead of merely wondering, I decided to try and find out.

They were married only a short time, and I do not wish to hint or imply lurking scandal; I merely wonder, as a concerned viewer, as an informed layman of Southern history, why the marriage is not mentioned at all.

If you're interested in children's media, or have merely wondered about the backstory of this confoundingly wholesome publication, it's an intriguing look backstage and an interesting counterpoint to the stranger, subtler pleasures of "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the recent documentary about Mr. Rogers.

(Can we imagine a book about the South during the civil rights movement with hardly a mention of blacks?) Yet Irving merely wonders if Grass's excess feeling of guilt has to do with what happened to the Poles, and is amazingly casual about the import of Grass's lie.

No blame attaches to Wahlberg, who was excellent in "Boogie Nights" and "The Yards," and the burden would have lain with equal weight on any of today's performers, except maybe George Clooney; one merely wonders why smooth sophistication, once a regular item on an actor's résumé, should have gone the way of the pleated pants front and the well-shined shoe.

However, rather than merely wonder about whether this is true, stop for a moment to consider how you could – or could not – prove it.