"Age, my dear Mrs. Macallan, is a purely relative expression," he said.

"Denser," of course, was a purely relative word; by terrestrial standards even its most closely packed regions were still a fairly good vacuum.

Irreversibility of natural processes, he claimed, is a purely relative conception.

Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small.

Evil and good are of course purely relative, so it cannot be said in absolute terms that your culture is evil.

Of course, "cheap" was a purely relative term where defenses on this scale were concerned, but even purely relative savings mounted up.

In postmodernism, "truth" and "falsity" are purely relative; each culture has its own standard for judging truth that is not inherently superior to any other.

That is a purely relative distinction.

It is a truism of psychology that imprisonment, like everything else, is purely relative.

While the restrictions on the central government's ability to tax had indeed limited that government's power, the limitation was purely relative.