Their principal merit, however, arises from their beauty, which renders them peculiarly fit for the ornaments of dress and furniture.

They require solidity of appearance, and their principal merit is duration.

More to the point, a show may be small in scale without being small in the scope of its attention, and it is the principal merit of this exhibition that large issues are raised.

I at length determined to retrench them entirely, because, not being in the manner of the rest, they would have spoiled the interesting simplicity, which was its principal merit.

Its principal merit is to make you want to go see the buildings.

Elsewhere he wrote: "The principal merit of the work is, in my view, the truthfulness of the expression."

His principal merit, according to Pierre Larousse, is to have pursued classical studies during a period that lacked classicists of the first order.

The principal merit of Lyapunov function-based stability analysis of ODEs is that the actual solution (whether analytical or numerical) of the ODE is not required.

Shakespeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language, and can say what he will.

Some figures such as Peak Music Power are used in selling consumer merchandise and have the principal merit of yielding high numbers that can impress people who don't know what the numbers mean.