Sentence examples for sheer labour from inspiring English sources

One thing nobody could dispute about Enter the Void is its sheer labour intensity.

The book is a stunning record of the sheer labour that illness brings; and illness combined with motherhood, too.

Cusk captures the intensities, ambivalences and sheer labour of taking care of babies, bringing something new to the enormous literature on child-rearing: the voice of a highly educated, independent, gifted woman who lets nothing slip by.

The sheer physical labour of making a large sculpture can be considerable, and sculptors from Phidias in the 5th century bce to Henry Moore in the 20th century, for example, have employed pupils and assistants to help with it.

Yet the sheer scale of Labour's victory has also transformed the party's nature.

The sheer scale of Labour's first victory shook that logic; the repeat landslide of 2001 blew it apart.

Such "cost-effective" measures don't do much to deal with the sheer scale of labour problems.

But the sheer size of Labour's majority on that summer's morning in 1997 meant that (reluctantly) the right had to put that goal to one side.

A Conservative health spokesman said: "This is sheer hypocrisy from Labour – this Government's hands were tied by unacceptably lax rules on redundancy which they put into contracts in 2006, and which we're reforming".

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

Sitting there, it struck me that we tend to underestimate the sheer novelty of New Labour.