Sentence examples for sheer sight of from inspiring English sources

Except by guys with brown shoes and beards who linger by the counter hoping that the waif sliding their 12" into it's paper sleeve will be so overcome by lust at the sheer sight of the carefully selected set of records she's been presented with the new ones on Sex Tags Mania, L.I.E.S, etc that she'll come out from behind the register and slip them her new number by the new dub-techno section.

Except by blokes with brown shoes and beards who linger by the counter hoping that the waif sliding their 12" into it's paper sleeve will be so overcome by lust at the sheer sight of the carefully selected set of records she's been presented with the new ones on Sex Tags Mania, L.I.E.S, etc that she hops over to the other side and gives them a jolly good seeing to by the new dub-techno section.

It was a sorry sight of sheer randomness and looking at the list of strange cocktails, bits of pizza and odd combinations of foods (a chronic case of whatever-is-in-the-fridge syndrome) was almost depressing.

I can well imagine, however, that a candidate of any leaning might be put off by the sheer bungling frivolity, the sight of a government desperately grappling for a household name, a bit of borrowed popularity.

But he never lost sight of the sheer art of storytelling and I am convinced that there is a whole generation of young boys out there, like mine, who discovered through Crichton that novels can be fun and exciting, and became fervent readers thanks to him.

Small things such as the reed beds and water lilies were as fascinating as the sheer hugeness of the lakes, or the sight of a beaver's workmanlike dam clogging a nearby tributary.

Even those who are not music fans will be entranced by the energy, warmth and sheer joy Mehrdad and Shahriar exude at the sight of visitors.

I missed feeling awe at the sight of a sunset, at a sheer cliff drop, at the beauty of a church or a temple, at the love in the eyes of those who are at worship.

Worse even than the packets of cocaine taped to his waist like a bondage corset is the sight of his European bikini underwear, semi-sheer, with a cobweb pattern.

The sight of children drowning off Aegean islands, the sheer scale of the crisis and Europe's inability to deal with it have all played a role in her decision to volunteer.

I was one of a gaggle of teen girls goggling the sight of her fingering the crotch-placed pocket of a sheer black dress while on stage at the State Theatre, Sydney, in 1990.