Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings of the T'ang dynasty were superseded by a new monochromatic style, to the 18th century. One could not hope for a more succinct introduction to what one of the artists represented on the walls, Tung Chi'i-ch'ang (1555-1636), rhapsodically called "the sheer marvels of brush and ink" wrought by the wen-jen or gentlemen scholars...
Playwright Arthur Miller has a briefer definition: "A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself." But most American papers cannot speak that loudly. The sheer size of the U.S. has precluded the development of a truly national press like Britain's. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal try to speak to the country at large, but almost all of the 1,760 dailies in the U.S. tailor themselves to the contours of their localities...
...Stein gibberish with high camp and low burlesque. One of the show's running gags is just that-a fellow in a red shirt and shorts who jogs rapidly across the back of the stage at intervals, always at a meticulously identical pace. At times this makes for sheer absurdity; at other times it seems almost like a mystical trance...
...simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from knots to points of sail, from rigging to docking, from man-overboard drills to the rough-weather practice of heaving to. On small craftsmanship and sheer draftsmanship Adkins is hard to beat...
...cent inflation--the worst in Europe at the time--was starting to have an effect on the Greek people. A memorial service for George Papandreou, former prime minister, brought on riots which for the first time attacked the police and repulsed the riot units with stones and sheer mass...