Sentence examples for seemingly merely from inspiring English sources

The critic has, seemingly, merely wished to test the songs he loves against his own pre-existing context, which happens to be Philip Larkin and Matthew Arnold, not Blind Willie McTell.

The extra funding is seemingly merely an intermediate step to keep the company up and running before more money is raised from institutional investors in the near future.

But some of these seemingly precious facts merely show that the encyclopedia — which, as old as it is, was compiled fifteen centuries after Sappho lived — could be prone to comic misunderstandings.

At the same time the provisions of the Farm Act, and later of the National Industrial Recovery Act, required a degree of control over the domestic market, seemingly incompatible, not merely with lower tariffs, but of such freedom of imports as now exists.

Choosing just 10 species from the 18,000 or so new ones named last year was a seemingly impossible task, but merely a dress rehearsal for living through the biodiversity crisis of the 21st century.

Jean, Paris, FranceSome confusion reigns over the precise title of this Michelin-starred restaurant: while once called "Chez Jean" it is now seemingly referred to merely as "Jean".

Through Chris's eyes and through Peele's images, seemingly innocuous or merely peculiar things become charged with personal and political meaning: the childlike count of "one Mississippi, two Mississippi," a wad of cotton, a set of shackles, partygoers holding up numbered paddles like bidders at an auction.

As a result, a refined Spinozist might wonder how different the positions are since the theist purports to explain these seemingly recalcitrant phenomena merely by appealing to the divine will.

This merely seemingly unconscious structure is essentially indexical in character and consists, at a given time, of both retentions, i.e., acts of immediate memory of what has been perceived "just a moment ago", original impressions, i.e., acts of awareness of what is perceived "right now", and protentions, i.e., immediate anticipations of what will be perceived "in a moment".

The concluding of Book II of The Methods of Ethics (1907), entitled "Deductive Hedonism," is a sustained though veiled criticism of Spencer.[6] For Sidgwick, Spencer's utilitarianism was merely seemingly deductive even though it purported to be more scientific and rigorously rational than "empirical" utilitarianism.

Not the prairies and the ranges, but seemingly endless takes of traffic, extraordinary merely in their patience and simplicity.