Sentence examples for simply or not from inspiring English sources

Mickalene Thomas's brash, exuberant paintings don't care what you think of them; they are much too busy simply — or not so simply — being themselves.

That is, when what's being sung are lyrics and not simply, or not so simply, the wordlike oscillating intensities of Jon Por Birgisson's schoolboy falsetto.

As a rule, these hikers tend to travel light, cook simply or not at all, and sleep in the lean-tos or other shelters on the trail.

"Prairie du Chien," from 1979 (now in revival at the Atlantic Theatre Company, along with Mamet's 1985 short play "The Shawl," under the collective title "Ghost Stories"), stars a character who is called, simply, or not simply, Storyteller.

His insanity might have been hardwired into him or simply (or not so simply) a symptom of working too many years in counterintelligence, where deception and detection are the rules of the game, and pride and promotion its only rewards.

He's good at those quieter scenes that find two people simply (or not so simply) talking, say, across a kitchen table, as Kelly and Derek do when he persuades her to go trolling for a child hooker.

To ask for the best work of American fiction, therefore, is not simply - or not really - to ask for the most beautifully written or the most enjoyable to read.

Educational content is never simply embodied or not; there are most certainly degrees.

No longer does a PTX need to be simply there or not there.

2 Adherence is not simply whether or not a patient takes a dose at the times prescribed.

It was also, simply – or rather not that simply!