Sentence examples for sheer notion from inspiring English sources

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The sheer notion that I thought she herself could do anything about the wee-fee, about getting the cards here faster, was probably genuinely amusing to her.

The sheer notion that you can put Wikileaks back in its little bottle is hilariously naive.

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"Out of sheer spite.

He calls the notion "sheer folly".

It thumps and thuds and fucking pelts the listener — it's sheer abstraction, the notion of dance music stretched to an often unforgiving degree.

I suppose it's hardly surprising that those who write for a magazine called "The Economist" are so sold on the notion that sheer quantity is itself a sufficient measure of the good life.

However, and as might have been anticipated, the sheer effrontery of the notion that a waterway passing through Egypt might always be controlled by two foreign imperial powers meant that Britain and France eventually came into conflict with the increasingly nationalistic mood of the Egyptians, as well as with the generally anti-imperial mood of the postwar world.

But when the notion, the sheer fucking enormity of the word "kill" enters your head, it's like nothing else on earth.

The principle has worked equally well for the world's two largest cruise ships, both Royal Caribbean's, which use the spectacle of sheer magnitude to dispel the notion that there's nothing to do at sea.

The book argued that some bird species had evolved the ability to appreciate melody and sing for the sheer pleasure of it, a notion that continues to intrigue zoological scientists.

On the other hand, this notion would be sheer misery to an extrovert who, if they could afford it, would be likely to have a gardener and if they couldn't, would be in the market for a "low maintenance" garden design (as if such a thing existed)!

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