Sentence examples for providing merely from inspiring English sources

Though now a standard method of historical criticism, this practice led to allegations that Sainte-Beuve was providing merely biographical explanations of literary phenomena.

This is the year in which Twitter and Facebook, far from being sideline commentators providing merely a more efficient flow of free publicity, became the main show and the realms of movies and television became, instead, instantly reactive.

Older zithers, such as the Alpine Scheitholt, have narrow rectangular sound boxes and fewer melody strings, their three or more bass strings providing merely a dronelike accompaniment on the tonic and dominant (first and fifth notes of the scale).

Lowell may be the first of that postwar generation which will write in dead earnest, not content with providing merely a slick superficiality but attempting to find a basis for a working faith, in spite of secretive Nature and in defiance of the frivolous concepts of a gross and complacent society.

Though some criticize the four-hour monthly council meetings as providing merely the appearance of public interaction, it did play a role in garnering an extra $40 million in federal financing to finish cleaning up the lab in 2004, two years earlier than planned.

40 and 41, 1788) and reaching its highest expression in numerous works of Ludwig van Beethoven, the finale attained a structural significance that had previously been reserved for the opening movement, to the extent that, instead of providing merely an agreeable conclusion, it contained the ultimate thematic resolution of a large-scale instrumental drama.

But buying a computer program provides merely a licence to use the software.

The Discourse on Miracles took the position that miracles provide merely a "probable proof" of revelation.

A league does not provide world government-it provides merely a new set of balances, a new expression of faith.

If the treatments provide merely a placebo effect, telling patients about this lack of evidence might undermine that benefit.

There is little sign yet of when the additional cash will be provided merely to maintain current levels of fragile provision.