The sheer man-hours needed to ensure proper detail, routing, and integration with third-party data is staggering.
There are few cities in the world to equal it for sheer man-made splendor and most of it is open to view.
But the defining quality of the man, his sheer humanity, may best be appreciated at the Academic Bookstore, one of the biggest in Europe, with more than 500,000 titles in stock in a half-dozen languages.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
The Keokuk remained afloat through the night by her crew's sheer will, manning pumps and bailing, but the next morning brought the heavier surf that finally swamped her.
The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly.
Similarly, Eriksson appreciates that he cannot entrust England's fortunes solely to one young man, sheer genius or not.
"Lord Kitchener represents all that I have always loathed about the First World War - the jingoism, the sheer waste of men, the 'lions led by donkeys' mentality," she said.
The density of thought, the love of art and the sheer number of man-hours in each one load them with huge meaning and memory for me.
The United States in 1945 was a giant, all right, but with the wealth of a Harriman, the altruism of a Marshall, and the sheer dedication of men like Clayton, Vandenberg, Hoffman, and Bissell, it was surely a benign colossus.
One of the real tragedies of the conflict was not the sheer number of men who fought to win the Civil War, but the few who lost the war within.
