Word: sheer
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Heroes of Shipka is quite a delightful venture into Soviet cowboys and Indians. The film depicts in ardent propagandist terms the Russian victory over the Ottomans in 1876 when the Russians, out of sheer humanity, came to the aid of their "oppressed" Bulgarian brothers. The whole show is fraught with an enthusiasm and naivete that Hollywood no longer offers...
Huntington, according to Lee, has made himself into a fine wrestler by sheer hard work. He was the only member of the squad to enter the Wilkes Tournament over the Christmas vacation, and after a first round win, lost to Ed DeWitt, NCAA champion from Pitt...
...onetime NATO Commander in Chief Alfred Gruenther in which Belgium's NATO Ambassador Andre de Staercke chided the Western press for its "masochistic" tendency to see "just the weak points of our position." This attitude, said Veteran Diplomat de Staercke, is compounded by "lack of analysis, by sheer ignorance, by that kind of facility which makes bad news easier to believe than good news, or pessimism more secure than optimism...
...friend of last Saturday said, pressing over to me through the crowd. "He really had them today, didn't he? That mystery of non-being always gets 'em. You see what I mean about God, now, don't you? No one thing, but the ground of it all. Sheer transcendence itself...
...sheer bulk (1,266 pp.), Some Came Running begs for superlatives and earns at least one-it is the biggest literary sleeping pill (2 Ibs. 11 oz.) of the season, a title that few believed could be wrested from Atlas Shrugged...