Sentence examples for seemed sheer from inspiring English sources

Mahler's prediction that "my time will come," which may have seemed sheer bravado, has long since been borne out.

The idea that different geometries can describe spaces different from our own, for example, is self-evident to a modern mathematician, but would have seemed sheer nonsense to any practitioner before the 19th century.

By contrast, his display of the state of the administration as it is now seems sheer magic.

In recent Metropolitan Opera seasons, his noble portrayal of King Marke in "Tristan und Isolde" made the soprano's preference for the tenor seem sheer folly...Pape, a native of Dresden, first came to the Met in 1995 and has been returning every season to expand his repertory.

During Desert Tank, we leapt from red sandstone cliffs to white (iron ore gives the red its distinctive hue) and scaled what seemed a sheer blanched peak.

"Tennessee is on the cutting edge of circumventing rules and rationalizing it," Bensel-Meyers said, in what seemed like sheer chauvinism.

For a campaign selling anti-establishmentism, having a manager from the inner circles of D.C. might seem like sheer Trumpocrisy, but such seeming contradictions are the essence of The Donald.

Spooky music makes the shots from Disney's musical seem like sheer terror.

His candlelight seems to sheer away irregularities like a laser, polishing skin and making diamonds of eyes.

"All this is fine, of course, for the specialist press, who think that a box art announcement is a top-line story, but we have to justify our valuable time to our increasingly time-poor editors, and it seems the sheer volume of specialist press coverage is swinging the pendulum away from mainstream media, whose audience it could well be argued is more key in creating blockbuster franchises".

Debates about the Oscars, which only go to a small fraction of industry professionals each year, can seem like sheer vanity.