Sentence examples for was merely human from inspiring English sources
For 58 minutes 26 seconds tonight, Michael Vick was merely human.
But the Bruins' point guard, who had laser surgery Monday for a punctured retina in his left eye, was merely human early against Iowa State.
The great 17th-century dissenter Roger Williams declared that government derived no authority whatsoever from God, but was "merely human and civil".
If the west had won, if nothing was worth fighting for, if all values were relative and eternal, then what remained was merely humans choosing fatuously between consumer goods that contributed negligibly to our flourishing until our species did the decent thing and did itself in.
None of us is entirely free from doubtful desires and few of us from any dubious acts; those with minors or by force or coercion are always wrong — as are other acts that destroy or damage someone's else's humanity; most everything else has a good shot at being merely human.
As he saw it, they were merely human — Fascism's crime was to have deprived them of that status — and humanity was what we had to understand if we harbored any hope of a just world.
It dwarfs and enlarges what is merely human.
Lacking any sexual component, the images are merely human.
However, let's acknowledge that the generals and politicians were merely human, with positives and negatives.
We take for granted, too, the power of words, forgetting that they are merely human as well.
