Sentence examples for not merely work from inspiring English sources

I was already becoming known as a poet, and I also wrote articles on social themes, but at the same time I was increasingly aware of the fact that in order to make a political statement an artist must not merely work with "political" themes in his poetry, that is, on the level of content, but must also develop a structural, institutional alternative to the existing order.

It should be made clear that Ms. Feldshuh is not merely working a gimmick.

It doesn't merely work; it flies.

Athletes don't merely work harder than they once did.

Washington wants an exemption for all Americans, not merely those working for the government.

Trump supporters, in other words, are united not merely by working class grievances, but more powerfully by racial and cultural isolationism.

Here she is in 1963, as close to the edge as she appears to have ventured: "I am completely exhausted by Vladimir's letters (I mean those he received and I have to answer) and it is not merely physical work but he also wants me to make all the decisions which I find more time-consuming than the actual typing.

The threats were not merely the work of local kids.

Mark Siegel, the editorial director of First Second, said in a statement that "Zahra's Paradise" "is not merely a work of observation," adding, "Art becomes a player, a participant, a voice adding to the chorus of voices in the streets and on the rooftops of Iran".

While in modern society, implementation of such values is not merely the work of one certain country or people abstractly, it is the common cause of mankind; to be specific, implementation of the values rests upon international cooperation.

Plutarch makes clear that the rational world soul is "not merely a work but also a part of God and has come to be not by his agency, but both from him as a source and out of his substance" (Plat. Quest. 1001C).