Apparently aimless alterations in form-arrangement will make art seem merely a game.

And then he confessed further, because he did not want to seem merely sentimentally hopeful.

Any further movement, therefore, might seem merely a disturbance.

How can I hide all this from her, and seem merely her quiet elder brother?

To us they seem merely to be quibbling over when or where a given cycle began.

To them they seem merely so much brass or copper or tarnished silver at the best.

Plague and famine, with a great part of the common misfortunes of human life, seem merely evil.

This may seem merely absurd or apocryphal; but consider the terrible power of concentration which it implies!

He had constantly experienced it for so long now, eight years, as to make it seem merely natural.

All books, all arts, all accomplishments, had ceased to seem merely the accessories and the handmaidens of love.

He may be an ugly, ungracious, unamiable person, whose affections may seem merely ludicrous and despicable to you.

Do pupils seem merely to try to "learn the text" or really to comprehend the spirit?

However, for the locals, who had seen it hundreds of times, it might seem merely a place for tea-drinking.

It is, by the way, a little remarkable how many of the Western birds seem merely duplicates of the Eastern.

Bresler's cited cases of this class seem merely to impress the idea of revenge, or of protection from deserved punishment.

There are smiles and laughs, as you look about at the faces, but they seem merely individual-onehere, another there.