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Meanings of sheer inability in English

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Usage of sheer inability in English
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From sheer inability to stem the traffic, Selwyn stepped into a doorway.
The Parts Men Play
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She stood up from sheer inability to continue sitting still.
The Street Called Straight
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He stopped momentarily for sheer inability to continue.
The Film Mystery
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He would feel worse-andprobably continue alive instead, from sheer inability to make his mind up.
The Extra Day
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Holder was silent, from sheer inability to speak.
The Inside of the Cup — Volume 08
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I rose and shook Krebs's hand: sheer inability to express my emotion drove me to commonplaces.
A Far Country — Volume 3
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Bob broke off from sheer inability to continue.
The Story of Sugar
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Ignorant of all distinctions between good and bad, he thought wrong from sheer inability to see right.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
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How we go through life, losing most of the beauties of it from sheer inability to see!
Great Possessions
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He'd started walking toward the lake, out of sheer inability to think of anything more useful to do.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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We might dilate on the sheer inability of the hearer to grasp a clear outline in such a multiple plot.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
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She tried to resist the weight of it, and her sheer inability precipitated her into a sense of pitiful dependence.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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One half of the class, which numbers about four hundred, have given up in despair from sheer inability to follow him.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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It was so piteous a change that as he took her hand he was silent, from sheer inability to speak calmly.
The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain
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In sheer inability to express the profundity of his emotion, Dag Daughtry broke off the sentence and drowned it in his beer-glass.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
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I went up-stairs to Halsey's room finally, from sheer inability to sit across from Gertrude any longer, and meet her terror-filled eyes.
The Circular Staircase
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