Sentence examples for so sheer as from inspiring English sources
Ms. Wang also had a print of vaulted ceilings on her silk chiffon dresses, which were so sheer as to be a little risqué, at least for the red carpet.
Just last month, Ms. Davis, famous for her rangy frame, pillowy lips and piano keyboard smile, created a tempest by turning up at the Emmy Awards in a Pamela Dennis dress so sheer she might just as well have worn nothing at all.
They're so sheer that the runs don't show.
Sheer mental agility kept him at the top for so long, as well as wiry athleticism.
Team Wavestorm's Instagram isn't about high performance so much as sheer invention.
Even so, for sheer technical bravura, his work is wonderful to behold, whether in oil or in watercolor, in which he was as skilled if not as soulful as Winslow Homer.
"He conveyed nothing so much as the sheer joy of watching movies – and writing about them," Time theatre critic Richard Zoglin said in an online tribute.
Not so much horror as sheer responsibility.
After all, as the critic Nicola Chiaromonte observed in the late 1940s, "In Italy, the Church offers not heaven so much as protection from the sheer impact of history".
"These artists will help you not kill people or yourself," she writes, "so long as you don't perish from sheer boredom".
