Sentence examples for sheer if from inspiring English sources

Sheer (if occasionally misguided) visual panache is the coin of this realm, and it extends to the well-equipped, glass-walled fitness center atop the seven-story building.

What gets lost in this equation, however, is the thing that gave the original Three Tenors concert, and concept, a spark: a combined wattage of star power and years of experience that made the first concert in 1990 a frothy piece of sheer, if guilty, fun.

Open curtains and replace them with sheers, if possible.

Such a move is required if craft and subtlety are to be given a chance against sheer power, if the artists can reign again over the mashers.

Luce's success story would be sheer romance if it could surmount one basic problem: Luce himself.

Here is Ed again, describing someone's look of sheer surprise: "If Austin Webber wore a monocle, it would drop".

Like O'Rourke's best stuff, it's challenging, but with occasional pockets of sheer excitement, if not transcendent joy.

Despite some unscored contributions by kookaburras in the surrounding trees, the event was a huge success, drawing worldwide publicity for its sheer improbability, if nothing else.

In 2003, Stephenson published "Quicksilver," the first volume in a trilogy meant to dwarf, in sheer tonnage if not literary moxie, everything Stephenson had previously written.

Hoccleve's aspiration to be Chaucer's successor was rapidly overshadowed, in sheer bulk if not necessarily in literary merit, by the formidable oeuvre of John Lydgate, a monk at the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds.

Part of the secret of his success had been sheer unpredictability: if Salome had been shocking on account of its subject matter, Elektra seemed to push dissonance and sheer ferocity of sound to barely tolerable levels.