Sentence examples for were not purely from inspiring English sources

These were not purely academic inquiries.

His motives, he acknowledges, were not purely altruistic.

Deaconesses in the early church "were not purely and simply equivalent to the deacons".

Vermeer was finally rediscovered in the 1860's, though the reasons were not purely aesthetic.

Late in the day this support was withdrawn: evidently, his researches were not purely "literary" enough.

The justifications were not purely biological or to do with skin colour.

"This is not purely economics.

Our motive is not purely environmental.

The obstacles are not purely financial.

But the dangers are not purely partisan.

Depth is not purely systemic.