"sheer catastrophe" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to emphasize the severity or suddenness of a disastrous event or situation. Example: The storm brought sheer catastrophe to the small town, leaving behind a path of destruction and despair.
Or will they be moved solely by the sheer power of the catastrophe?
The sheer scale of the catastrophe is almost impossible to grasp without knowing exactly why and how it could have happened.
It depends on regarding social housing purely as a safety net, a last resort for people who have failed to show enough character to amass the wealth to buy their own home, an escape for those unlucky few who, through personal catastrophe or sheer misfortune, find themselves homeless.
We were all horrified, and, whether we recognize it or not, we are all scarred by the sheer insanity of this catastrophe where little kids were deliberately -- and anonymously -- killed in their classroom.
There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
But those senior managers who have so far survived both the resignations and a big overhaul of the once dysfunctional relationship between Airbus and EADS face an unwelcome distraction at the very least.Part of the explanation for the catastrophe was the sheer complexity of the A380.
Suddenly, in substance as well as in form, the movie leaps far beyond casual chat and deep into historical shudderings, intimate passions, the inescapable pull of family, the personal side of politics, the mystery of attraction, the bind of tradition and modernity, and the sheer random force of modern catastrophe.
Doyle argued in the piece that nuclear deterrence was a "myth" and that declassified documents showed that the world avoided several nuclear catastrophes during the Cold War only by sheer "luck".
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"Only massive humanitarian support and the sheer resilience of the people of South Sudan were we able to prevent a catastrophe last year," Fominyen said.
