Both Uses of
sheer
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …practitioner drawing a handsome fee for his services in addition to which professional status his rescue of that man from certain drowning by artificial respiration and what they call first aid at Skerries, or Malahide was it? was, he was bound to admit, an exceedingly plucky deed which he could not too highly praise, so that frankly he was utterly at a loss to fathom what earthly reason could be at the back of it except he put it down to sheer cussedness or jealousy, pure and simple.†
Chpt 16
- Sheer force of natural genius, that.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent