This could alleviate the misery of those suffering from mental illness and allow paralyzed people to control computers, video games, appliances, wheelchairs and mechanical arms and legs with sheer thought.
But the communal embrace comes at a high price — sheer panic at the thought of anyone who might be even slightly different.
He expressed sheer discontent at the thought of a future where the status quo may potentially remain unchanged.
The sheer horror at the thought of being related to people in other countries has been enough to provoke a number of emotional diatribes from No supporters, even though they often say they're against building more borders.
Writing in a local newspaper, the atheist and academic retorted: "I always marvel when I come up to the Highlands and encounter this kind of sheer, blind panic at the mere thought of me giving a talk.
The thought of putting it on evokes sheer terror, but its originality is staggering.
The book as a whole is a remarkable illustration of the sheer force of thought, the conceptual firepower, conferred by successful training in philosophy.
But part of the laughter comes from something simpler: the thought of a man having sex with food, and the sheer idiot glee with which the couplings are described.
For many, that thought of Casey Anthony basking in a tropical locale sets off another wave of sheer repugnance, whether it was really her or not.
Silly as it sounds, this captures the sheer uncanniness of the Big Bang — and, as Heidegger said, the anxiety we feel in the thought of "nothing" brings us face to face with Being itself.
