Four of the five sampled were not merely good, but sensational.
After several hours on two legs her sense of smell dropped from uncanny to merely good.
But is Turgeon willing to raise his play from merely good to great?
He would have to lose half his talent to be merely good.
It was a day upon which one felt it good merely to live.
No quick read-through can distinguish the great from the merely good.
It was good merely to lie there, to exist and ask no questions.
Perhaps, in a plant where everyone is an expert craftsman, some are great, others merely good.
Very often the best is the worst enemy of what is merely good.
It is not moral to be good merely in the hope of reward.