The editor of ArtReview, Mark Rappolt, said the numbers spoke for themselves in terms of the sheikha's "sheer buying power and what that means for the market".
"Some people feel that the Maktoum family have distorted the market through their sheer buying power, whilst others recognise the positive local impact of their investment in racing," it says.
One of the big changes is the sheer number of people buying online, rather than on the high street.
But sometimes, you are buying into sheer eccentricity, and that includes the chance that your host may not like the cut of your jib nor your sexual orientation.
Daily deal sites are a gold mine of revenues and venture capital is flying at them right now, so the temptation is to throw money at the international problem and go into a sheer land-grab of buying up clones early and often before they get too far along.
Were you inclined to buy a sheer white T-shirt that could double as maternity wear and Alexander Wang was sold out, this could be your second stop.
It's enough to put you off shopping altogether, and has done for Nicole Slavin who is "bah humbug about Christmas, partly because of the commercialisation and the sheer social pressure to buy people things".
Scarlett Johansson Buy her debut album Anywhere I Lay my Head if you want to impress your cool friends, but you'll never play it more than once Sheer folly Did you buy a transparent blouse and think it was going to be an integral part of your spring wardrobe before realising you didn't quite have the nerve to wear it to anything other than one party?
I am in bed with a book, naked, and hardly able to focus on the clustered words and rigid descending paragraphs, because Maureen is in the bathroom slipping into the sheer black negligee I bought her at Victoria's Secret for her birthday, and her every sound — the creak of the medicine cabinet on its hinges, the tap running, the susurrus of the brush at her teeth — electrifies me.
Before she patented her creation, the New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob, widely considered to be the inventor of the modern bra, had bought a sheer silk dress and devised a handkerchief and ribbon device as an alternative to unsightly corsets.
Congress was right to reject NAFTA initially, which never enjoyed sincere majority support in either the House or the Senate and was bought with sheer patronage by Bill Clinton.
