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Example sentences for: sheer

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The Times version: "I mean, I totally underestimated the degree to which people would just get sick of 24-hour-a-day talk television and talk radio and then the degree to which this whole scandal became just sort of disgusting by sheer repetition."
Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.
Even the conservative Weekly Standard is skeptical: "The sheer magnitude of the problems that government now fumbles with may militate against" Murray's vision of private efforts filling the void.
Once inside, the sheer scale of the church is immediate and impressive.
Some recoiled from the sheer brutality of the violence (which also defaced Germany's image).