"merely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He began to realize the emotion, and the loneliness, behind the banality of what she had said; he was ashamed of himself to have answered as if it were merely banal.
- Arendt ... envisioned even the extreme evil which produced the Holocaust as merely banal [in Eichmann in Jerusalem].
- For him, the road is not sinister; it is merely banal.
- The absence of scenery and properties and the exploitation of the stage as stage both permit the cliched dialogue and prevent it from being merely banal.
- For the most part, the film oscillates between the good and the merely banal".
- As formal photographs, seen across nearly a century of surrealism, they succeed where, say, the fairy pictures that Arthur Conan Doyle famously endorsed don't, the fakery of the fairies being merely banal.
- On their own terms, Brel's songs - the best, the merely banal and the unbearable - and these previously unsung ones fall mostly into the last two categories.
- We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will, within market production, be reduced or discontinued, while types which make a profit will be expanded.
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