Sentence examples for sheer impossibility from inspiring English sources

(Mr. McDarrah's refusal in this case may have owed simply to the sheer impossibility of filling the order).

But independent defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said that despite Putin's optimism, replacing many of the foreign-sourced components was a "sheer impossibility".

This perspective at least acknowledges the big problem here, which is the sheer impossibility of finding any companies to invest in that are truly pristine.

The sheer impossibility of writing a model that can capture every potential impact of climate change means that modelers decide what to quantify – and what not to.

Yet she cajoled the station attendant into bringing her tea and her police guard into sharing it, and informed the guard of the sheer impossibility of staying on without a ladies' maid.

Mr. Chomet's ravishingly weird animated feature unfolds in a universe of sheer impossibility, where size, proportion and balance are ruled by the whims of the director's perverse pen and his peculiar imagination.

By definition, most of their supposed crimes were sheer impossibilities.

As one of the handbook's core "disciplines" for advanced practitioners, Simulviewing reveals, in its sheer ludicrousness, the impossibility of a hyperactive couch potato.

Laurel Halo draws inspiration from "the sheer inhumanity and impossibility of science" as well as the mystical paranoia of the novelist Philip K. Dick, while Ms. Gualdi, a former architect, reveres the fantastical blueprints drawn up by outfits like Archigram and Superstudio.

The sheer idiocy (and impossibility) of having a fully fueled shuttle on the back of the Boeing during the trans-Atlantic crossing should be evident, and later in the film, the whole Jaws-falls-in-love and becomes a "good guy" routine leaves me rather cold, and provides far too much cheesy comedy moments, as does the gondola driving through the square scene".

It is the magnitude of the thing, the seeming impossibility, the sheer ridiculousness of it all -- spending 8, 9, maybe 12 hours a day just putting one foot in front of the other -- that is the point.