Sentence examples for sheer labor from inspiring English sources

Seen from behind in a threadbare coat, this young man hunched over his drawing board hints perhaps at the sheer labor Chardin was putting in to achieve his hard-won miniature triumphs.

It involves sheer labor and complexity.

Running an idea competition requires sheer labor and involves high complexity.

Likewise, Nadal's tennis embodies the effort, the sweat, the sheer physical labor of tennis.

As "college-educated suburbanites," they were unaccustomed to the sheer physical labor of farming (made more difficult by Alex's severe back problems).

No madness here; yet the observing eye is compassionate, certainly, as it registers the sheer physical labor of its subjects and the poverty of their clothing in the chill of the air.

And how many of us can say that our kids have been given the same opportunity to learn through sheer grunt labor that anything of value comes through applying ourselves over time?

Mo writes that he and others who heard this tale were "rather incredulous: among the Chinese populace, almost every one of whom had endured torments; how could there exist a film that was even sadder than our lives?" He goes into the picaresque adventure of how he and two friends managed to get to see the film (by means of hard labor, sheer audacity, and good connections).

They were living in a house nearby, surviving on sheer wit, hard labor, and little else.

It conveys the sheer amount of labor involved in producing a miracle -- and that miraculousness as well.

Interviews with actors, directors and writers tend to devolve into truisms and abstractions, while attempts to dramatize artists at work often suffer from melodrama and foreshortening, missing the small details, the trial and error, and the sheer tedium of artistic labor.