Sentence examples for sheer incident from inspiring English sources

Even "A Streetcar Named Desire" — set to music by André Previn a few years ago — pales in sheer incident next to red-meat bel canto; Verdi would have found the play insufferably slow.

Of the Kjell affair, Turing had written that "for sheer incident, it rivalled the Arnold [gross-indecency] story"; and immediately after his conviction had told a friend: "The day of the trial was by no means disagreeable.

Despite the flatness of the writing, and Proulx's relaxed attitude to saturating us with detail about, say, advances in woodcutting technology, the book's sheer tonnage of incident supplies an intermittent but undeniable thrill.

Although nearly all of these interventions are described by those close to operations as "almost routine", several incidents reveal there is a risk of escalation because of the sheer volume of incidents.

And sometimes the sheer quantity of incidents arouses a certain resistance.

Among the hundreds of pages of material, the navy stands out for the sheer volume of incidents, many involving heavy drinking, violence and sexually aggressive behavior.

Still, the DeBakey-Cooley feud is hard to top, not just for longevity but for the sheer drama of the incident that set it off.

Weighing in at almost 1,000 pages, but taking its subject only up to the age of 36, the book shows by its sheer length how much incident, complexity and controversy are crowded into the first half of his long life.

The sheer volume of tragic incidents involving teens at Myspace and Facebook forced the companies to come to the table and strike a "voluntary" deal in 2008 with attorney generals nationwide to address vexing, persistent child-safety issues.

But judging by the sheer number of alleged incidents at the Baltimore location Carson described, his story is entirely plausible. .

By sheer volume of reported incidents, the neighborhood remains the second most risky place in town, closely following South of Market (SoMa), where many tech startups rub elbows with homeless shelters and mental illness treatment centers.