Sentence examples for that's merely good from inspiring English sources

At their worst the Hernandez Brothers make work that's merely good and entertaining.

Leonard Maltin of IndieWire praised the animation and art direction, but wrote that he wished "the movie was funnier and wasn't so plot-heavy" and that "Pixar has raised the bar for animated features so high that when they turn out a film that's merely good, instead of great, they have only themselves to blame for causing critics to damn them with faint praise".

It suggested that endurance and performance were linked.In his sequel, "Good to Great", published in 2000, Mr Collins tried to pin down what it was that distinguished great companies from those that were merely good.

I told her that I wanted originality, even if it was ugly, and that I'd rather watch a show that unsettled me than something that was merely "good".

Nonetheless, the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, and many faculty members are concerned enough about what they call the compression of grades -- a problem that makes it difficult to distinguish excellent work from work that is merely good -- that the faculty panel has been looking into the causes of the inflation and what to do about it.

Wilson, in the lineup because Mike Piazza was hit in the groin Saturday by a foul tip, also coaxed Mets starter John Thomson through five innings that were merely good enough for the resurgent -- and, yes, baffling -- Mets to win their sixth straight game.

For a cheaper portfolio, consider companies that are merely good payers rather than growing payers.

One might object to these claims by holding that a sufficient amount of goods that are "merely good enough" should be able to outweigh a small number of truly excellent goods.

Even professional traders who sat glued to their monitors and executed a buy order the minute Foundry began trading have gotten returns that are merely good, but not life-changing.

Your customers do not want things that are merely 'good.' Instead, they want something that will 'wow' them -- and that is something they would even be willing to pay a premium for.

In an age of inexpensive smartphone games, he noted, "it's getting harder to ask someone to spend $60 on something that's merely a good effort".