Sentence examples for subject merely from inspiring English sources

He has no grand theory to push, and pronounces his subject merely interesting.

Mourinho was initially reluctant to address the subject, merely replying: "Willian played fantastically well," when considering Hazard's absence.

But Black, attempting a reconsideration of his subject, merely provides an exculpatory gloss for seemingly every grimy facet of Nixon's career.

The picture here is a photograph in which the reading subject merely poses with a copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management.

But even the fiction that seeks more ambitiously (or more arrogantly?) to take us into the stricken World Trade Centre doesn't change the impression that novelists are using the subject merely to do work they'd write anyway.

Robert Douglas-FairhursThehe Observer There are those who find his willingness in recent years to turn his hand to any subject -- 11 September, the royal family, the war on Iraq -- grating, as if he thinks he brings extra profundity to a subject merely by deigning to write about it.

As with Buffy, these characters are the heart and soul of the series, the fantastical subject matter merely a backdrop to the whip-smart repartee that's the real star of the show.

British officials said Miliband was not attempting to pre-empt what Obama had to say on the subject, but merely to reinforce the same message, with the aim of "rebooting" badly damaged ties in the wake of the Iraq war and the Bush administration's and Blair government's "war on terror".

They "are not real Qualities at all, residing in any subject, but merely abstract Names to express the Effects of some determinate Motions of certain streams of Matter... ...... (ibid., p. 760; Clarke and Collins, p. 57).

Schools must resist the temptation of pushing students towards "soft" subjects merely to improve their own sets of examination results and their positions in school league tables.

Mr. Leddy compensated for his lack of technical ability with enthusiasm and a beguiling candor — he never judges or condemns his subjects, merely showing us what they showed him, which sometimes can be quite revealing.