Some terrible recent developments seem to value solely in a work of art those things that corroborate what you already think.
Yet, despite these severe limitations, his greatness is incontrovertible, and, regarded solely as a work of art, the status of his History remains unassailed.
In light of this, it's hard to take seriously the claims that Cheney asked us to accept: to name just two, that the information obtained by torture saved lives; and that the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was solely the work of "a few sadistic prison guards," and not the result of interrogation practices approved by Cheney himself.
Official condemnation at the time focused solely on the work of a "few bad apples".
Ministry is not solely the work of professionally trained clergy.
In his speech on Tuesday, Mr. Assad depicted the protest movement as solely the work of terrorists.
It has become customary, especially on the Sept. 11 anniversary, to think of terrorism as solely the work of religious fanatics, typically people shouting "God is great" in Arabic as they attempt to inflict mass death.
Last month, The News of the World, which had maintained that the hacking was solely the work of the reporter and private investigator, dismissed its assistant editor for news, Ian Edmondson, after finding "material evidence" linking him to the accusations of phone hacking.
Juliann Sivulka writes in the Advertising & Society Review, What Betty Friedan and other feminist critics later deemed as sexualizing American women and stereotyping their role in society as mothers, wives, and servants of men was not an all-male development by men's institutions and advertising — that is, solely the work of the businessman and the ad man.
The play "tests every one of us," said James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University who has published several books on Shakespeare, including the recent "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?" No one claims that "Double Falsehood" is solely the work of Shakespeare; Theobald eventually acknowledged Fletcher's part in it, to say nothing of his own alterations.
