Sentences with phrase «sheer dint of»
Still, by sheer dint of his reach, the song might have made Jackson (who bears no relation to U.S. EPA chief Lisa Jackson) a kind of super-sized Al Gore, a decade before An Inconvenient Truth.
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By sheer dint of numbers and authority, a particular view tends to predominate for a period.
Nevertheless this marvelous debut succeeds in creating an impressive sweep by the sheer dint of powerful writing and narrative scope.
... This marvelous debut succeeds in creating an impressive sweep by the sheer dint of powerful writing and narrative scope.
When art, by sheer dint of its existence, can, at its best, genuinely function as a tool of ennoblement, of resistance, as a bulwark against the noxious ooze pouring out of Washington, it's frustrating to watch same old practices played out in the face of obvious opportunity to do something better.
For his part, Diesel falls back on his usual gravelly monotone, smirking his way through awful dialogue as though he could make it clever by sheer dint of will.
Because Marmaduke is inherently desirable, perhaps, by sheer dint of his being male and the protagonist of the story (I just threw up a little in my mouth writing that).
It doesn't necessarily take a woman to push legislation that benefits single women, but these women, by sheer dint of personal experience, will have a better perspective on the new approaches to social policy that this new population of women requires.
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By dint of sheer will he persuaded himself that he had to find a work that would interest him and at the same time allow him «to feel that through it he takes hold of the reality of things».
Yet many church groups conduct programs of «public affairs» as if persons are autonomous units, isolated from the influence of power entities in their communities and able to regulate their behavior under all circumstances by dint of sheer moral will.
Its first tenet is that individuals are equal not by dint of divine creation but because of their sheer biological similarity.