Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history (Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians). Her sonorous scorn for the excesses and rigidities of the new history might win the approval of the ghost of Carlyle. She loathes the idea that social history should base itself on a substructure of material detail "that supposedly goes deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual and collective behavior"; mentalite history gives "greater credence to popular beliefs than to the 'elitist' ideas of philosophers...
...star's sweet sybaritic life while residing in the house of propriety. On the road he is not immune to celebrity groupies, yet he remains devoted to Toddy, his wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show-biz sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed...
Despite the absence of two top returning starters--injured Captain Mark Pepper and junior Gian D'Ornellas--from the early-season lineup, the Crimson defense has allowed a mere five goals this season. Harvard goalies Stephen Hall and Chad Reilly, supported by skilled backs, have combined for five shutouts on the year...
...asker is apt to feel his stardom and celestial salary threatened. Network White House correspondents can now come close to a million a year. A startled Lyndon Johnson once grumped, "My God, do you realize they pay some of those telly- vision reporters $60,000 a year?" Mere peanuts today...
...Mere name-calling is not actionable as a matter of law," argued the defense attorneys. Indeed, the judge suggested, it can be refreshing. "Creativity in the art of abusive epithet has all but disappeared," he stated. "It is all too rare today to hear the clear, clean ring of a really original insult...