The phrase "sheer display" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a complete or total exhibition or demonstration of something. Example: The fashion show was a sheer display of the latest trends and designs.
Passages infused with sublime beauty sat beside sheer display, some virtuosic and brilliant, some veering headlong into vulgarity.
In its literary interest and sheer display of personality, Frost's correspondence is on a par with the letters of Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and Samuel Beckett.
It was as if the sheer display of iron-pantsed discussion would further underscore her insistent theme: the hollowness of Obama's charisma.
Mr. Hamelin came by his assurance rightly, having spent the early decades of his career slaying keyboard dragons of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, many of them obscure as much for the technical difficulty of their piano writing as for their occasional lapses into sheer display.
I'm talking about it as a narrative whole, a game where, without devolving into either sheer display or ethereal wandering, characters, plot, and mechanics all serve one another, and everything you do, say, and hear has a purpose.
As noted earlier, Arnold could be in line for an even bigger prize, but her sheer display of formal chops here — a decisive triumph of bold, jagged image making over thin-to-nonexistent narrative — seems most likely to be rewarded in this category.
Anna is a role of unusual seriousness, with practically no moments for sheer vocal display.
WASHINGTON — Maybe it was the unexpected warmth of the gesture, the sheer enveloping display of affection.
Plenty of people in Iowa have been waiting for Cruz to attack Trump, with whom he is effectively tied in some of the latest polls, in part for the sheer gladiatorial display of it.
The sheer chutzpah displayed in their ramblings was delightful entertainment.
Zuckerberg's business model depends on our shifting notions of privacy, revelation, and sheer self-display.
