Sentence examples for sheer boldness from inspiring English sources

The sheer boldness of the plan that Sibley and Davis hatched would be its undoing.

But the sheer boldness of it won me over from the opening of episode one.

The scene is so portentous, so monumental, that I nearly switched sides — the sheer boldness was seductive.

The scene is so portentous, so monumental, that I nearly switched sides the sheer boldness was seductive.

Grass's sheer boldness, the grand scale of his conception, echoes the giants of French art and letters like Delacroix and Stendhal.

For example, I have been struck all over again in recent months by the sheer boldness, independence and radical spirit of Owen Wingrave, Britten's only opera for TV, commissioned by the BBC and first broadcast in 1971.

The Independent praised the play's "sheer theatrical boldness" and hailed Kirkwood's "remarkably ambitious, three-hour exploration of the fast-changing and complex relationship between the United States and China".

But the sheer expressive boldness of those vast, risk-taking late-Romantic symphonies tell us that Mahler the composer and Mahler the conductor surely inhabited the same musical world.

But nothing had quite prepared one for the sheer theatrical boldness and thematic sweep of Chimerica, her remarkably ambitious, three-hour exploration of the fast-changing and complex relationship between the United States and China.

Plus of course England's own coaches and cricketers have never really been a natural fit for the sheer verve and boldness required to make the format work.

Israel has hit such shipments regularly in Lebanon and twice recently in Syria, but the sheer scope and boldness of Sunday's strikes, analysts said, threw down a gauntlet to Hezbollah, Iran and Syria that could put the Lebanese group at greater risk as Israel appears to take advantage of the chaos in Syria to hit its nemesis with near impunity.