The road opened out now: it still went on up, but no longer sheerly.

And others may want to see “Araya” sheerly for its documentary interest.

On either side the rock fell away sheerly into darkness.

Consider my question sheerly hypothetical: What would happen in such a case?

"I don't think there has ever been a program of mine with such sheerly gorgeous music," he said.

I'd been known to wear heels sheerly for the pleasure of looking down on him.

The gray house was, at first, of sheerly pastoral intent.

Sheerly suicidal, yes, but he was desperate now, and there seemed no other way.

Most of the information is either apocryphal or sheerly theoretical.

The rest of the program was more sheerly decorative.

She was rewarded with a knowing and sheerly radiant smile.

The plateau dropped off sheerly on the side that was exposed to the sky.

He did have perhaps more ale than was good for him," she said, sheerly to see how they would react. "

Below me the wall of rock dropped sheerly into a purple abyss.

But it is certainly one of his silkiest and most sheerly enjoyable.

Many wars have been fought sheerly for aggression and conquest.

As a sheerly musical product the performance was excellent.

The lunge that Terry made was sheerly one of desperation.

In the centre the companion ladder plunged down sheerly like an open pit.

That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something.

But the Fishers won't be facing anything sheerly for the sake of surprise.

The big climaxes seemed sheerly physical rather than gut-wrenchingly emotional.

When these images work, they are sheerly strange, poetic, erotic, disturbing.

Seen close up, the thing was sheerly weird.

Yet it was rare to hear such sheerly beautiful string playing in an "Eroica" performance.