But it has real merits, illuminating much that other theories leave obscure.

So the real merit of this book is the author's history of the family.

It's no real merit to be in correspondence with an earl, and yet after all, that boy makes me feel as if there was.

There was real merit in the work of all three principal singers.

"We felt there was real merit to some of the issues that were raised," she said.

Nevertheless, a small number of works of real merit can be found among the 200 included (one per artist).

Yet very few of them had the slightest conceivable claim to real merit.

In his view, if the idea had any real merit, some expert would have done it long ago.

But it shouldn't bump a book of real literary merit.

But then, some members said as the meeting was breaking up, it did have some real merit.