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Example sentences for: sheer

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If it convinces you it's a masterpiece, it does so by sheer brute force.
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 !
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.
It is Leonardo's sheer ability to see --to notice, in a way that no one had before, precisely what it looks like when two streams of water merge--that accounts for the thrilling bits of the Codex
The WP touches on the fact that the WTO situation was a blow for the president, but focuses on why the negotiations bombed--labor leaders, environmentalists and human rights activists credited their protests; trade ministers said it was the sheer complexity of issues coupled with delegates' unwillingness to compromise.