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And the emphasis often attends to academic nicety and pyrotechnic splendor rather than sheer dance pleasure.

But for Robertson, Cereal Anytime's angle is portion size rather than sheer choice of flakes, loops and clusters.

Their example encouraged other independents to buy films with criteria of per sonal taste - rather than sheer business shrewdness.

His esoteric inscriptions reveal a controlled intent rather than sheer lunacy and suggest a knowledgeable, if hard to unravel, commentary on China's contemporary predicament.

He is happy in love, and writes about his happiness, but he still sees love as a provocation rather than sheer comfort.

Qualitative assessment is much more important – the best university departments use peer review and the view of scholars in the field rather than sheer numbers to assess quality.

Dark matter, on the other hand, is matter--rather than sheer energy--but matter we can't see or feel or detect in any direct way other than through its gravitational pull on other matter.

But aim for a sheer sleeve rather than a sheer flank.

Overall, though, his reading put the spotlight on the score rather than on sheer pianism.

In the end it is the imaginative power, rather than the sheer representativeness, that endures.

The emphasis is on spectacular aerial maneuvers and rock-solid "chain-wrestling" technique rather than on sheer size and musculature.