merely

• “The husband and father fell dead in the street before our eyes, -- and those who picked him up said he was drunk, but it turned out that he was merely starved, -- _merely_!”

  Temporal Power

• “Externals, things wholly extraneous of the man, steal upon the hearts and judgments of almost, if not altogether, all mankind; nor do I know more than one instance of a man who fully regards all the world as a stage and all the men and women merely players, and who (the dancing-school bow excepted) only values these players, the _dramatis personæ_ who build cities and who rear hedges, who govern provinces or superintend flocks, _merely as they act their parts_.”

  The Letters of Robert Burns

• “My suspicion is that the label merely wanted an album that large numbers of people might like, and they did not think such a desire precluded the band from making an album that was valid.”

  Simon & Schuster: Eating the Dinosaur

• “After viewing, I concluded that the title merely indicated "cracks" in the sanity of some of the film's characters -- but a crack is a slang term in the original South African where the novel was set vernacular.”

  The Huffington Post: Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way)

• “It also suggests that the question may be a confusing one -- perhaps respondents think that the question of who to trust to "handle" Iraq merely translates as, "presuming we're staying, who do you trust to continue the fight best?”

  Poll: Most Trusted On Iraq Are...McCain And Rudy!

• “The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-Elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year;" Where does Chris Hughes fit into an Obama administration?, tweets NYU's Jay Rosen.”

  Daily Digest: Working to Catch the Presidential Ear

• “The First Internet Election: The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-Elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year.”

  Daily Digest: Fired Up, Ready to Govern

• “Out of curiosity, I checked the original Hebrew of Exodus 10:5 to see whether anything in the Hebrew necessitated "cannot be able to" -- however, the Hebrew phrase in question merely translates as "will not be able to":”

  On "can be able to"

• “The First Internet Election: The Next Right's Patrick Ruffini warns the GOP that if it concludes that President-elect Barack Obama earned the title merely by pushing the right levers on the Internet, "they will draw the wrong lessons from this year.”

  Daily Digest: Fired Up, Ready to Govern

• “Besides, the town had been abuzz with his name merely because he was back in residence nearby.”

  Simon & Schuster: Marriage Most Scandalous

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