Sentence examples for sheer achievement from inspiring English sources

In retrospect, the sheer achievement of this show anticipated much of what I've discovered this year.

But Richard Linklater's sheer achievement in making Boyhood must surely make him the favourite over Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), David Fincher for Gone Girl and Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman.

Aside from questions about the money spent or whether this was a good use of resources, the sheer achievement should be celebrated, not just by architects, engineers or photographers, but by educators K-12 educators K-12-D.

For England, work, rather than exuberance, became the rule, and Bobby Moore, England's captain and the kind of taskmaster who works by example rather than by demand, managed to place the ball from a free kick in such a precise spot in the air that Hurst, hurtling in as he had so importantly against the Argentinians, headed a goal that was sheer, positive achievement.

It feels like only yesterday that Eddie Izzard lost four toenails to his obsessive marathoning (in fact it was in 2009 that he ran 43 marathons in 51 days; he said afterwards that the sheer physical achievement was so huge that nobody believed him. "I may as well say I've just eaten a car").

I will not talk about the immense respect for sheer, unvarnished achievement that Woods' fellow players have bestowed on the man.

It is the sheer scale of the achievement that will send Hodgson's reputation skyward.

Caro called Moses "America's greatest builder," and perhaps the most distinctive service of the exhibition is to bring home the sheer scale of his achievement to a new audience.

"We've won the season's last two grands prix, both wins the result of our car's sheer pace and that achievement gives us an extremely solid platform from which to develop our 2013 car".

Biafra was where many of the leaders of what de Waal calls the "humanitarian international" got their start, and the Biafra airlift provided the industry with its founding legend, "an unsurpassed effort in terms of logistical achievement and sheer physical courage," de Waal writes.

Standing on the top of Huayan Picchu mountain looking down across the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu you are struck by the sheer scale of the achievement - the number of people who worked on it, their skill, strength and determination in the face of great natural obstacles.