Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad.

While watching TV, children do not merely absorb words and images.

You are not paying all or your tuition to merely go to class, study, pass tests and graduate.

The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton.

Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had, says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel

Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.

However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

This isn't a lament (伤感) - or not merely a lament - for bygone times.

To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (不断积累) to the whole of society as today's children become tomorrow's productive citizenry (公民).

In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

That's why, for example, may say they believe in the benefits of recycling or exercise, but don't behave in line with their views, because it takes awareness, effort and courage to go beyond merely stating that you believe something is a good idea.

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

This doesn’t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.

Merely helping a gift-giver gain access to other officials, unless done with clear intent to pressure those officials, is not corruption, the justices found.

Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can't be obtained merely by becoming more efficient.

It says that the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system of career advancement positively encourages it.

Merely expanding the orchestra's repertoire will not be enough.

Merely helping a gift-giver gain access to other officials, unless done with clear intent to pressure those officials, is not corruption, the Justices found.

They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really for, not merely how much of it there is.

This doesn't, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.