The phrase "sheer failure" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a complete and total failure, without any mitigating factors or excuses. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: Despite months of preparation and hard work, the project ended in sheer failure, causing disappointment and frustration for the entire team.
Contrary to Dennis B. Ross's description of an apt American policy toward Iran, the policy is misguided by virtue of the sheer failure to produce any hard evidence that indicates Iran's breach of its nonproliferation treaty obligations.
The sheer failure of business to make a proper case for itself, to explain the good it does, to describe how much worse off we'd be without it, is shocking – and depressing.
Moreover, the SMY (28 L CH4 kg−1 VS) for 15 % TS dairy manure and Switchgrass digestion during 62 days of incubation at 55 °C was a sheer failure (Ahn et al. 2010); similarly 156 198 days (5.2 6.6 months of incubation) (Sun et al. 1987) is far from being practical and economic.
For sheer noble failure, the Harvest Dome of 2011 will be hard to match.
But for sheer collective failure, the Mets seemed to be making their own history.
We all love sheer slapstick failure, particularly when it's clothed in camp and presented as high art.
"I've seen multiple mental coaches," said Day. "But the biggest thing that prepares you for something like this is the sheer experience of failure.
Even so, the system struggled to cope with the sheer complexity of Lehman Brothers' failure.
To this British eye that failure in sheer drill seemed outrageous.
No period of Russia's cultural history has been as full of change, turmoil, creativity, failure, and sheer destructiveness as the 17th century.
Unshakeable faith in Margaret Thatcher's privatisation creed is being killed off not just by counter-ideology, but by the sheer irrationality, expense and failure of so many private contracts.
