merely ***

On one important level, he merely wants to tell a story.

Until then, I had merely been someone with news of his son.

Most of them are merely turned away, but a few do get in.

They were merely very open to learning how the world actually worked.

He merely wants the war to end and his son to come home.

They want to see action after 2003, not merely more words.

The report is merely the start of the whole process.

The question is merely when and where they will happen.

Or perhaps he does, and I am merely his second stop today.

The rest is merely what the court will also say when they hear.

I was merely looking at him as he went on.

I merely told him of what the war had done to us here.

I was merely a woman, and likely his second of the night.

He was merely the one who happened to be involved, no more.

These were merely individual cases among many others like them.

Those two were not all the dead, merely the first.

A man should study to be, and not merely to seem.

I merely wanted the board to come to a decision.

She seemed to have come merely to see them off.

But he merely asked me what I thought of her.

I'm not trying merely to make up for what I did.

Or what they called power, which she thought was merely control.

They were merely building up their forces, which takes time.

Or had she merely said so for some reason of her own?

He expected her merely to keep things as she found them.