Sentence examples for sheer in from inspiring English sources

2.47pm: The weapons misfire and the cannonballs sheer in too low and are caught by the net.

But there is no arguing with the designer's light touch, his bonbon sweetness, his sophisticated take on color, texture and sheer — in both senses — femininity.

For eyes and lips, it was taupe-shiny Valerian shadow from the beauty brand's new Classic Palette for lids and Lip Sheer in Comet on the mouth.

"There are aspects of sheer in just about every spring collection, which reflect a lightening of mood following on from winter's bold prints and opulent textures," says Holli Rogers, fashion director at Net-a-Porter.com.

"'So, what did you think of "Titanic: The Musical? Did the boat really sink?' For that unimpressive view, he searched for "something hip and relatively sheer" in his price range.

It was in its French classics folder that I stumbled upon Jean Renoir's 1936 miniature Partie de campagne: 40 minutes of refined but playful bliss, as light and sheer in its carnality as lace delicates, it composes a romantic roundelay from a simple country picnic.

What is so very puzzling about the whole episode is the sheer in-your-face-ness of it.

But Steranko soon outgrew his teacher, at least in terms of innovation and sheer in-your-face pizzazz, adding modern design ideas, pop-culture references to Dalí and the like, and brilliant cinematic pacing to his pages.

"I felt so physically horrible, and I'd look at them and the pure joy on their faces and in their bodies for just being out in nature and being able to smell the air, smell the trees, chase a squirrel — that sheer in-the-moment love of life they showed me really lifted my spirit on a daily basis".

But for the most part, it is a reasonless detachment of spectacle from life; in that sense, it is probably closer to Bollywood than is generally admitted, but the sheer in-your-face two-dimensional portrayal of people without character, without antecedents, without origins is offensive.

In sheer dexterity, in balletic grace, in superhuman relaxation, he was a performer in a million.