Sentence examples for would become merely from inspiring English sources

Cast with an ingenue, the movie would become merely salacious.

The Mongols even tried to introduce paper money into Persia — though this would become merely a failed experiment.

Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood since 2010, said he knew that in doing so he would become merely "a footnote in history".

However, if the boundaries had been too tightly protected, the role of the liminal time-space would have become merely one of sanctuary with limited potential for gains to be transferred and integrated back into the everyday emotional and social worlds of the participants.

Richard Wright, the author and himself a Delta immigrant, thought that "never in history has a more utterly unprepared folk wanted to go to the city". David Cohn, a conservative white son of the Delta who stayed at home, saw "an enormous tragedy in the making," and speculated in 1947 that race relations would become not merely an issue but the issue in the North.

While the obsession with lightness which seems to appear in every culture (every one that sends women to international beauty pageants, anyway) may become merely a matter of individual perception, the perceptions would still exist.

His didn't aim to become merely a faceless purveyor of commodity goods that would undercut the local merchant on price alone.

Spices had become, merely, condiments.

The antics of Tara Emma Cunniffee) become merely tiresome and overly stagey.

The original has become merely fodder for better ideas.

In the essay Diaghilev has become merely "that fiend".