Sentence examples for not merely like from inspiring English sources
He writes: "Not merely like steak.
Trump will run government not merely like a business, but as a business.
And this is not merely like the difference between studying English and French geography but, in some minds at least, represents a huge ideological divide.
For Arendt, therefore, the polis stands for the space of appearance, for that space "where I appear to others as others appear to me, where men exist not merely like other living or inanimate things, but to make their appearance explicitly".
Perhaps The Babe, himself a poor boy on his own from youth who found wealth and immortal celebrity in New York and far beyond, who lived not merely like a young rajah but the Sultan of Swat, took a look at Fitzgerald's novel.
Because now, not merely liking nature but loving a specific and vital part of it, I had no choice but to start worrying about the environment again.
His son Biff, Willy asserts, will inevitably rise in the world, despite the moral failings they both swat away like pesky gnats, because he is "well liked," not merely "liked," as is Charley's studious son Bernard.
Her people do not "merely" behave like people in stories, but they also do not behave "merely" like people in the real world — they behave, satisfyingly, like people in a spectacularly mindful artistic purification of the real.
There are four boys who figure strongly in the action of this book, one of whom -- the boy downstairs, Seldon Wishnow -- isn't merely, like the younger Roth child, a 9-year-old confronted by too many problems but the book's most tragic figure, a trusting American kid who suffers something like the European Jewish experience.
Up last, Thomas White, a philosopher at Loyola Marymount University in Redondo Beach, California, made the argument that dolphins aren't merely like people they may actually be people, or at least, "nonhuman persons," as he described them.
Personally, I'm excited by this new archetype, and not merely because, like everyone else, I am trying to noodge you into watching "Enlightened".
