Despite their astonishing skill, surgeons can cause the needless loss of life through sheer carelessness – something as simple as forgetting to wash their hands or apply a clean dressing.
Sheer contrast had something to do with it.
Simon Cole "Its sheer ambition was something to behold and the interweaving of the criminal and law-abiding world was fascinating.
The conductor Pablo Heras-Casado plays up the score's fierce, high-stakes drama, at times trading its sheer beauty for something more thrilling.
If they are painted it is simply, with something sheer and neutral, sometimes with a striking but subtle embellishment — a French tip, a pop of color.
Still others think tags detract from the attractiveness of garments, particularly when they show through something sheer or flip up so they are visible above a collar or waistband.
Less than stimulated by the romance of the Dewey Decimal System and born lazy, I made for the smallest book I could find in the stacks, which by sheer chance was something called "Six Plays by Kaufman and Hart".
"His career encompasses so much more than the six or seven films that are associated with catchphrases, but the sheer repeatability of something like 'Hoo-ah!' allows those performances to overshadow everything else".
Obviously, I spent some time with this show, and I bet you will, too, not just because of the prodigious skills it displays or the sheer patience (or something) it took to create, but because, give or take some particulars, Mr. Shapiro's life is basically my life, and probably yours.
This is a rich Melvillean image, nested within 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, acerbic, witty and combative prose: a small child on a wild Pacific beach, cheering on the waves, recognising in their sheer destructive power something grandly commensurate with her own inner turbulence.
