Sentence examples for nor merely from inspiring English sources

The state should neither row nor merely steer.

Neither "just" objects nor "merely" airy commands, the pieces in "Grapefruit" now encompass both possibilities simultaneously.

First, corporate charter competition is neither dormant nor merely a competition between Delaware and the corporations' home states.

Neither a crown colony nor merely a Chinese metropolis, Hong Kong is trying to be a bit of both.

But Smith was not hired merely because he is a throwback, nor merely to coach only DiPietro.

I would not withhold adjudication because of the fact of codification, nor merely on account of the procedural dodge resorted to by counsel.

For nearly 60 years there has been neither war nor peace — merely a shaky armistice.

LaGravenese winds up satisfying neither the young audience nor anyone merely looking for a good film.

At its purest, science strives to be neither logical nor reasonable, merely suspicious.

She's neither aggressive nor flirtatious, merely conversational — her sincere loneliness and even despair, not her commercial motives, come through strongly.

Condo almost completely erodes the significance of his subject, treating the religious theme with neither reverence nor scorn, merely as a frame for absurd and exuberant painting.