Sentence examples for not merely performing from inspiring English sources

Phony camaraderie, trumped-up tensions, on-demand tears or shock or jubilation: aren't there any reality-show everymen or women who can convince us that they're not merely performing for the cameras?

You start by assembling a cast of four actors suited to their characters not only in their affinity for their roles but in the subtlety with which they imbue their portrayals -- as if each is not merely performing a part but slipping into the skin of a flesh-and-blood person.

Gender is embodied and not merely performed.

As Ms. Peck flits through jetés and pirouettes, she isn't merely performing steps, but is also showing her desire and longing for something better.

Much of this is due to a prominent new set of creative figures, among them Ansari and Kaling, Shonda Rhimes and Kenya Barris, Lee Daniels and Larry Wilmore, Nahnatchka Khan and John Ridley, Dee Rees and Mara Brock Akil, who don't merely perform but run the show.

Holiness does not mean merely performing the obligatory rituals on the outside but staying pure on the inside.

In some cases, those buying in bulk aren't even visiting the properties, merely performing complex mathematical valuations based on land and property records, as well as recent sales.

(And wouldn't you know it — in a scene where a bunch of the kids, and then Nutter père and Nutter mère, read for a commercial, she is the only one who seems the least bit natural. The casting director gives the rest of them a fairly damning diagnosis: they're not acting, she says — they're merely performing lines).

A Brendel concert was not merely music performed, it was a glimpse of the soul of the artist.

To read the pre-concert coverage, it's as though Bush had not merely decided to perform again after so long, but that she'd been resurrected to do so.

And he did more than merely perform.