1 It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control.
2 It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.
3 Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.
4 The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.
5 The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control.
6 Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy.
7 However, it was not the proclamation of a military victory this time, but merely an announcement from the Ministry of Plenty.
8 But it was not hostility, exactly; merely a kind of wariness, a momentary stiffening, as at the passing of some unfamiliar animal.
9 But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
10 Much more it was because of a secretly held belief--or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope--that O'Brien's political orthodoxy was not perfect.
11 On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose windows appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with dust.
12 He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.
13 It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
14 It was merely one symptom of her revolt against the Party and all its ways, and somehow it seemed natural and healthy, like the sneeze of a horse that smells bad hay.
15 It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken.
16 Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron--they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.
17 He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
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