Word: sheerly
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...consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. --Soman S. Chainani
...power ballad came through just fine on the car radio or on the boom box at the beach. The power ballad relied on strong, clear vocals, on lyrics that were simple and trite but always direct and plainly emotional, on the electric guitar and, most of all, on sheer volume. This wasn't the kind of music you'd hear in an elevator or in a smoky club in a college town. This was music that demanded your attention, that drew you in, that was at home only when listened to by thousands simultaneously. These were big songs...
...just into life-styles. Women, gays, blacks all decided to take seriously that stuff about the pursuit of happiness. Every week, when Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat into the air, a lot of people knew exactly how she felt. Seen in that forgiving light, even the sheer awfulness of '70s taste--leisure suits in grape-jelly purple, shag-carpeted vans, KC and the Sunshine Band--was just an unconfined democratic impulse set loose in the marketplace...
...sheer amount of capital to which Tower has access allows the musical behemoth to provide an exhaustive inventory of every type of media known to man. Besides the standard collection of CD's (each with the standard price tag of $16), Tower supplements its offerings with everything from books to laserdiscs...
...achieved so much success in so little time because sports represent the last bastion of pure excellence in our leveling, democratic society. Only in sports does sheer talent and desire determine the outcome. Athletes are the only persons left in America judged, praised, and blamed strictly on their actions and their ability, not their race, sex, class, or any other such nonsense from the smorgasbord of identity...