Sentence examples for sheer punch from inspiring English sources

Part of the glory of classic hip-hop dancing is its sheer punch: the locking and popping and flipping and spinning on your head.

Not that Chinese painting ever abandons sheer visual punch.

He added: "If scored on the basis of the sheer number of punches thrown and punches landed, he won on a TKO".

What comes across with Neds is its sheer energy and punch.

I was electrified by the sheer visceral sucker punch of Philip Seymour Hoffman's production about Rikers Island convicts on death row.

"Five rounds to one, through sheer volume of punches, after coming through a nasty first-round knockdown, which he dropped 10-8.

After six months, most workers either flee for other jobs or stay underground the rest of their lives — transfixed by the scale and complexity of the work, the sheer hubris of punching a hole through a mountain.

Now, with more than three decades behind it, the orchestra plays with all the power, punch and sheer personality that was lacking in the early years.

The programme ended with a limp account of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, arguably the most volatile work in the 19-century repertoire, though one that needs far more rhythmic punch and sheer flamboyance than Fischer brought to it.

Her fourth collection blended Parisian polish (plenty of navy, touches of flirty sheer net) with London punch: the pinafore shapes and high-heeled loafers were an Alexa Chung-ish touch, while the designer credited "night buses, bike sheds, bare legs and cold nights" among her inspirations for the season.

Some disputed his belief that a song's "collector" should share in the rewards from the copyright, while his sheer ubiquitousness prompted a Punch cartoonist to depict a hillbilly sitting on the step of a shack with the caption: "I got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-round-to-record-me blues".