Sentence examples for sheer definition from inspiring English sources

It is important to see that this is equivalent to ruling out, by sheer definition, the possibility of heterogeneously formulated strict laws.

But for sheer character definition, nothing beats the flat-top buzzcut maintained by the Dude's half-crazed Vietnam veteran buddy, Walter.

Now and then you wanted more sheer sound and definition.

If I ever need a definition of sheer courage, it is those young RMPs accompanying the Afghan police on patrol through the fields and tracks of Helmand's "green zone", as the province's fertile central area is known.

Its pervasiveness coupled with the sheer elusiveness of its definition suggests a biological impulse.

Emerging or re-emerging infectious agents are rarely subject of extensive preceding experimental investigations by sheer implication of their definition, as they would, for example, exist for model pathogens such as Salmonella.

The sheer variety of proposed definitions should give us pause.

There's an interesting discussion that suggests the aim is to make our photographs stand out among the zillion or so that get posted every day: are we striving for an authenticity in an age when the sheer quantity of images by definition devalues our pictures?

Where I take issue with Aarseth's definition is that it omits the sheer pleasure of reading this kind of book.

But, the paintings aside, its sheer demonic refusal to be encumbered by traditional definitions of mediums and perhaps by matter itself, and its determination to tell a story while inundating the eye, has more than a touch of bizarre genius.

"Part of that focus just by definition is on race because of the sheer statistical, disproportionate numbers of African-American men who are impacted by the criminal justice system," said Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel.