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Example sentences for: sheer

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' Parkinson means `gullible, a push-over': it is a contraction of pâ de kin o son suru `Losing money out of sheer stupidity.
I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !
The sheer variety of rationales for the joint training exercises--as given by officials quoted in the WP --suggests that the original purpose of the 1991 law has been superceded by case-by-case concerns.
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.
In sheer appearance, this cold and aloof Southerner stood out from his fellow math prodigies.