Sentence examples for merits of things from inspiring English sources

What I found is that, during hourlong initial consultations, the designers provided by each company were more patient and courteous than I am as they explained the relative merits of things like drawer slides.

He had the sort of acute and penetrating eye that quickly saw the merit of things.

The great merit of "Things to Come" is in its construction of the network of associations and activities that bind Nathalie to the world around her.

The philosophical merit of things that are equivocally F is that they come bearing signs of their incompleteness, so that the inquisitive mind wants to know more (Republic 523c 524d).

This, surely, is carrying much too far the British tradition of playing down the merits of all things British".

I still had a merit-based idea of things and I didn't feel I was ready or good enough.

According to the classical definition of Scriven [26], "Evaluation is the process of determining the merit, worth and value of things".

Whatever the merits of this argument, three things seem clear.

Whatever the merits of this reading, the things the receptacle is said to "receive" are "all the bodies (sômata)" (50b6).

I guess one way of looking at all of these legislators acting out of self-interest instead of the merits of legislation is that things are basically back to normal around here.

"The underlying disagreement about whether the song had merit in the broader scheme of things did not disappear," the book concludes, "but resolving the conflict informed the work and made it stronger, rather than destroying it".