Sentence examples for regarded merely from inspiring English sources

Because he was rich Hughes was regarded merely as eccentric.

Once regarded merely as a counterpuncher, she has become more aggressive.

He regularly preached that subject matter should be regarded merely as a pretext for adventures in aestheticism.

Mr. Patterson said he did not want the film to be regarded merely as a rallying cry for liberals in a contentious election cycle.

Though all bridges do the same job -- make a path across water or some yawning chasm -- some are fabled, others regarded merely as infrastructure.

For artists like Louise Fishman, the "feminist struggle" was not to be regarded merely as "part of a greater struggle" defined by "the old, male-supremacist left," as she wrote in Feminist Art Journal in 1972.

What I regarded as merely hilarious but disposable nuggets were actually a prescient literary innovation.

Jane had been in love with Truslove for a long time, but he regarded her merely as a convenience.

I spent 15 years at the centre, working alongside people I regarded not merely as colleagues but as friends, political allies and intellectual interlocutors.

I had researched Bruno Mars because I admire his talent and love his music, and suspected that he would have an intriguing back story (he does), but this man regarded him merely as a useful addition to a database.

"The Coast of Utopia" is steeped in the Russian intellectual debates of the nineteenth century, and it contains countless hidden quotes from documents of the time, but Stoppard doesn't want it to be regarded as merely a historical piece.