Sentence examples for mixture of sheer from inspiring English sources

Abandoned by the international community, facing overwhelming odds, they kept going on a potent mixture of sheer determination and caffeine, finally achieving independence in 1991.

As with Beckett, there is a deep and searing tenderness at the heart of Krasznahorkai's universe, made all the more true and real by the mixture of sheer comedy and pure gloom that he lets into his pages.

It is difficult to think of a less applied subject than palaeontology, but China through a mixture of sheer size and geological variety is a happy hunting ground for fossil collectors.

And so it is with a mixture of excitement and sheer terror that I send you these galleys of Binkel's novel.

The following morning, I entered Turn 1 of my last laps at Lime Rock with a gasoline-fumed mixture of remorse and sheer terror.

"This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence," he writes in "Politics and the English Language," among my favorites of his essays, "is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing".

Despite early battles, Turnbull flourished through a mixture of energy, intelligence and sheer chutzpah.

For months, while his rivals in Washington looked on with a mixture of growing contempt and sheer incredulity, Howard Dean went off on the Democratic Party.

Now, though, Joe has run into the usual dissatisfactions of a single Londoner in his mid-30s, and – through a mixture of genetic predisposition and sheer bad luck – has unwittingly entangled himself in the quest for an apian superweapon.

This can lead to some strange views, especially where the female form is concerned, as presenter Anna Richardson discovers when she visits a Norfolk high school with a handful of live models, who stand naked while said teenagers gawk with a mixture of horror, mortification and sheer joy.

That red hue in his face is coming from a mixture of cold weather and sheer frustration at how he's portrayed in the media.