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Meanings of sheer insanity in English

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Usage of sheer insanity in English
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Some of it was just sheer insanity, and I couldn't control it.
Reuters
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Resistance was useless, and calling for help would have been sheer insanity.
A Rogue's Life
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Such an irrational emotion was from the supernormal point of view sheer insanity.
Odd John
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This naivety is housed somewhere between outright stupidity and sheer insanity.
Ebony
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I'll say it again; it would be sheer insanity.
The Flying Saucers are Real
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I had no excuse outside of sheer insanity-anddishonour.
The Blind Spot
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Frenzied, flinging action-wildchaos-shrieking cries-manifested sheer insanity of joy.
The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories
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That is sheer insanity in a Carroll.
The Debtor: A Novel
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To me such luxury is sheer insanity.
The Root of Evil
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Given the way the Nautilus was navigating, it would have been sheer insanity to think of escaping!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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The sheer insanity of alcoholism.
Priest
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This is sheer insanity!
One Day / A sequel to 'Three Weeks'
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She saw something on the range, a little object which filled her with such unreasoning horror that it was almost sheer insanity.
The Debtor: A Novel
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'This is sheer insanity!' He combs his hair with his fingers.
Number9Dream
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"This is the language of sheer insanity, Daphne, of mental excitement that passes reason."
A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories
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"I hate it-it'sall sheer insanity."
The Wheel of Life
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