Sentence examples for cause sheer from inspiring English sources

But could they have been due to a less sexy cause — sheer ambition?

The flood caused "sheer devastation", according to residents, as it poured from a culvert and down a side street, ripping huge chunks out of the road surface and destroying the road.

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Rising sea levels have caused sheer destruction, which has resulted in salt water coming inland and affecting the paddy fields and crops.

The remarkable formal aspect of this section (it includes a T-shape as a blue single file absorbs a green line that crawls toward it) should not cause the sheer inventiveness of the succeeding human encounters to be overlooked.

In other cases the cause is sheer laziness, or the fact that time and talent that might have been devoted to good are instead consumed by selfish ends.

Géricault's raft pointedly lacks a hero, and his painting presents no cause beyond sheer survival.

"It was caused by sheer frustration and was completely out of character".

Nokia and RIM's decline was caused by sheer arrogance.

I haven't found any statistics on what percentage of shootings are caused by sheer stupidity or spur-of-the-moment anger, but the accepted wisdom is that most murders are the result of sudden emotional rages, not careful planning (this is borne out in statistics that show murderers return to jail less often than other felons).

"Wales' backline is going to cause problems, with sheer size and power".