Sentence examples for the sheer idea from inspiring English sources

"I'm not terrified by the sheer idea of drones," says Van Houtryve.

It seemed that our colleagues were upset by the sheer idea of taking bottled water seriously.

Phillip Hammond, half-hard in the gauzy early AM sun, alone in the bathroom mirror, tumescent at the sheer idea of stealing milk from nursery children.

The sheer idea of a superstar ventriloquist pulling in an estimated 30 million dollars of personal income during the economy of the past year, and at the current stage of our cultural history, can appear literally unbelievable.

That, Is itselfantasyuithean exhausheer idea.

But this sheer idea of having this possibility of an EAD is what drove me.

This is an "interesting" and "worthy" idea, Gunn admitted, but questioned if it should "come before notions of intellectual and artistic priority … and the sheer, apolitical idea of 'art for arts' sake'".

Louise Wilson of Kane's alma mater, Central Saint Martins, praised the "grandiose gesture" of the sheer number of ideas.

Particularly striking is the sheer turnover of ideas; works made within a few months of each other often display radically different aesthetics as the artist forges breathlessly ahead, experimenting with classicism and Cubism and prepping for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".

Among this book's merits is its perceptive treatment of the collision between the sheer purity of absolute ideas, whether religious or philosophical, and the stubborn impurity, complexity, ambiguity of actual human lives.

The sheer preposterousness of the idea of a woman's giving birth to a sprig of myrtle is typical of the naive tale.