If part of the book's beauty resides in its language, both its precision and its sheer, wild exaltation, another part — the greater part — resides in its insistence on shunning prettiness, etiquette, niceness, guile.
Interview: Bruce Dern He bagged the best comedy actor at the Globes, and he's earned a spot here for the sheer wild excess, shot through with desperation, of his turn in Scorsese's banker satire.
None of these are the usual paths towards the fashion world's snooty heart, and I find it honestly admirable how the Kardashians, through sheer wild-eyed determination, have made them so.
When leprosy cases appeared, panicked local officials designated the island of Molokai, some fifty miles from Honolulu, a "leprosarium," because it was naturally inaccessible, presenting a sea cliff "so sheer that wild goats tumbled from its face".
The sheer strangeness of this wild thing, so impossibly still, is echoed in her preternatural beauty, somewhere between real and ideal.
Audience reactions were a mix of bewilderment, wild enthusiasm, and sheer terror.
The wild card is the sheer extent of the disaster.
According to one gloomy prediction, the population could fall from 145m now to 55m by 2075.At first these three big shifts were masked by the wild optimism, savage pessimism and sheer upheaval following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But the sheer ecstasy of his "Danny Boy" and the wild thrill of his "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)" is something none of today's serious countertenors can match.
"I agree," he wrote, "that much of the poetry is impossibly difficult; I've asked, or rather told, words to do too much; it isn't theories that choke some of the wilder and worser lines, but sheer greed".
The Verdon River, fast and wild, races for 13 miles between sheer limestone cliffs before emptying into the Lac de Ste.
