Sentence examples for sheer purpose from inspiring English sources

His version of "Golden Lady" opened with an interpolation of John Coltrane's "Love Supreme," for no clear reason; "As" ended with a lurching 7/8 vamp, for the sheer purpose of setting up a drum solo.

And 9/11 rendered a shock in both countries that initially deepened the divide, and then gradually, during the second half of the Bush Administration, the two governments came back together for the sheer purpose of defeating Al Qaeda, which threatened the Saudis.

Use sheer determination and willpower.

It's his sheer determination".

For sheer commercial purposes, the more people talk about a book, the better.

FOR sheer entertainment purposes, one of the best subgenres of business books has been the computer-hacker narrative, the kind of technological detective story found in books like "Takedown," by Tsutomu Shimomura with John Markoff (1996), and my personal favorite, "The Cuckoo's Egg," by Clifford Stoll (1989).

Byers predicted that the amateur code, "held in place for sheer economic purposes, will not long stand the test of the law".

Emotion has given way to exhaustion, and the work is done by sheer sense of purpose.

His four reasons for writing - aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, political purpose, sheer egoism - still seem unassailably true today.

It has darknesses but its spirit of joy and the sheer sense of purpose of the famous characters lifted me in this bleak year.

She graces the glossy in a blouse, jacket and sheer stockings (on purpose), but reveals inside the mag that her most iconic look was unintentional.