Sentence examples for sheer exercise from inspiring English sources

Not only is the sheer exercise of aggregating data about thousands of cases arduous but the process of altering an ingrained system with heaps of information is challenging.

It's not meant to be a sheer exercise in masochism.

Do they think they can create their own weather by a sheer exercise of will?

At one moment, they present four minutes of unadulterated washing machine action, which on its face could be as base and boring as the sheer academic exercises that precede them in this field, but out of these moments are eruptions of mechanical noise and screeching metal bursts of ecstasy and metaphorical laughter amid the thrum of Internet-era distractions.

But most often, Dr. Hornstein found, managers bullied subordinates for the sheer pleasure of exercising power.

Bombastic and hotblooded, he holds court in a singular fashion, exercising sheer force of will to pull the spotlight down on himself and demanding the crowd's attention: "That's the need to be heard," he states, offering his worldview.

But to inflict a skirt on an adventurous little girl is an exercise in sheer unkindness.

It is an exercise in sheer, unrelenting will — physical and mental.

Go for the exercise in sheer untrammeled technique that Mr. Rylance's performance represents.

The sheer comprehensiveness of the exercise may dispel some longstanding misapprehensions.

A light touch of curry makes his squab with mascarpone and meaty fava beans an exercise in sheer opulence.