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sheer adj 1: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" syn absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a) 2: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" syn plain, unmingled, unmixed 3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" syn bluff, bold 4: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" syn diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby adv 1: straight up or down without a break syn perpendicularly 2: directly; "he fell sheer into the water" v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" syn swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut 2: cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle" Source: WordNet. Princeton University
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff DyerPicadorFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilerated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer. Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence is the best book about not writing a book about D.H Lawrence ever written. Other people have written untraditional, even loopy tributes to the priest of love before--including boon companions Anais Nin and Henry Miller--but no one has done it with Dyer's chutzpah, or with such fantastic success. Dyer started out with the intention of writing either a sober academic study of Lawrence or a novel based on his subject's life but couldn't seem to do either. The academic study, he realized, was really just an excuse to read Lawrence's work, and the novel never even acquired a rudimentary shape in his mind. Instead, he somehow convinced his publisher to pick up the tab for his lengthy globetrotting pilgrimage, which took him from Paris to Rome to Greece to Oxford--not to mention such Lawrentian hotspots as Taos and Mexico and San Francisco. The result is an extended, often hilarious, meditation on seafood, English TV, Dyer's own creative impulses, and occasionally even Lawrence. In Lawrence's seminal prose he finds some justification for his own capricious indulgences: "What Lawrence's life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free.... There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you can give up because you have turned freedom into a permanent condition. Freedom is always precarious." Yet he refuses to read Lawrence's novels, confining himself to letters, travel reportage, and other casuals. Indeed, "[o]ne gets so weary watching authors' sensations and thoughts get novelised, set into the concrete of fiction, that perhaps it is best to avoid the novel as a medium of expression." Dyer's fascination with Lawrence's minorabilia suggests not only an oblique criticism of the contemporary novel, but a promising direction for the memoir. Perhaps clean, well-lighted subjectivity is a dead end, and the future lies with eccentric, provisional works along the lines of Flaubert's Parrot and How Proust Can Change Your Life--or Out of Sheer Rage. After all, Dyer's bright (and brilliantly shambolic) book of life reminds us of why we read in the first place: to see the surprising ways one person can be brought to life by another. --Michael Joseph Gross Sheer Mischief by Jill MansellHeadlineMaxine Vaughan has a talent for drawing attention to herself. Whether it's a case of being stranded in a borrowed wedding dress at seven in the morning, or bringing sexual power-games to a Cornish holiday resort, it's all in a day's work for Maxine. By the author of "Fast Friends". Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, The by Joel SalatinPolyface
Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's half-century as a "lunatic" farmer, Salatin contrasts the differences on many levels: practical, spiritual, social, economic, ecological, political, and nutritional. In today's conventional food-production paradigm, any farm that is open-sourced, compost-fertilized, pasture-based, portably-infrastructured, solar-driven, multi-speciated, heavily peopled, and soil-building must be operated by a lunatic. Modern, normal, reasonable farmers erect "No Trespassing" signs, deplete soil, worship annuals, apply petroleum-based chemicals, produce only one commodity, erect Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, and discourage young people from farming.Anyone looking for ammunition to defend a more localized, solar-driven, diversified food system will find an entire arsenal in these pages. With wit and humor honed during countless hours working on the farm he loves, and then interacting with conventional naysayers, Salatin brings the land to life, farming to sacredness, and food to ministry.Divided into four main sections, the first deals with principles to nurture the earth, an idea mainline farming has never really endorsed. The second section describes food and fiber production, including the notion that most farmers don't care about nutrient density or taste because all they want is shipability and volume. The third section, titled "Respect for Life," presents an apologetic for food sacredness and farming as a healing ministry. Only lunatics would want less machinery and pathogenicity. Oh, the ecstasy of not using drugs or paying bankers. How sad. The final section deals with promoting community, including the notion that more farmers would be a good thing.By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by George Alfred HentyPublic Domain BooksThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Sheer Abandon: A Novel by Penny VincenziAnchorA number-one bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act . . . Behind the Red Doors: Heaven Scent\Diamond Mine\Sheer Delights (Sensual Romance) by Stephanie BondSilhouette Special ReleasesDoor #1— Vicki Lewis Thompson Jamie Ruskin never considered using her knowledge of aromatherapy to help her attract men— until now. This Valentine’ s Day, she’ s going to get the guy she’ s lusted after for years— rugged Dev Sherman. Armed with essential, sensual oils, Jamie’ s planning to seduce Dev’ s senses— and then hope that the rest of him will follow.... Door #2— Stephanie Bond Faith Sherman never thought she’ d set eyes on her first and only love, gorgeous Carter Grayson, again. So she’ s surprised— and privately thrilled— when she discovers he’ s the new security guard at The Red Doors. At least, until Carter asks Faith to help him pick out a diamond ring— for another woman… . Door #3— Leslie Kelly Schoolteacher Meg O’ Rourke never guessed when she agreed to let “ Shear Delights,” a trendy new Chicago salon, use her digital photo that her image would be displayed wearing the scantiest, sexiest underthings she’ d ever seen. Or that one customer, in particular, would really like what he saw.... There’ s someone for everyone... Behind the Red Doors Door #1— Vicki Lewis Thompson Jamie Ruskin never considered using her knowledge of aromatherapy to help her attract men— until now. This Valentine’ s Day, she’ s going to get the guy she’ s lusted after for years— rugged Dev Sherman. Armed with essential, sensual oils, Jamie’ s planning to seduce Dev’ s senses— and then hope that the rest of him will follow.... Door #2— Stephanie Bond Faith Sherman never thought she’ d set eyes on her first and only love, gorgeous Carter Grayson, again. So she’ s surprised— and privately thrilled— when she discovers he’ s the new security guard at The Red Doors. At least, until Carter asks Faith to help him pick out a diamond ring— for another woman… . Door #3— Leslie Kelly Schoolteacher Meg O’ Rourke never guessed when she agreed to let “ Shear Delights,” a trendy new Chicago salon, use her digital photo that her image would be displayed wearing the scantiest, sexiest underthings she’ d ever seen. Or that one customer, in particular, would really like what he saw.... There’ s someone for everyone... Behind the Red Doors Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries) by Carola DunnMinotaur BooksIn March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural), they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it’s not to be quite so simple. At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while at the same time in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it’s not a question of who would do it—as most who’ve met him would be sorely tempted—but who actually did do it. Sheer Bliss, a Shapeshifter Erotic Romance (Book One of Love is Bliss) by Leigh EllwoodDLP BooksParanormal Erotic Romance, 20000 words Paranormal Erotic Romance, 20000 words The Von Hoffmann Bros.' Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness by Todd Von HoffmannGeneral Publishing GroupA bestselling bombastic bombardment of beer, beef, ball, and all things masculine, the von Hoffman Brothers' "Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness" is bursting with riotously funny observations, short stories, tips, lists, and definitions. Contents include a look at "Spartacus" (the manliest film ever made), a guide to fishing lures, chili recipes, drinking songs, a tribute to the guy who painted the "poker dogs", and more. 300 photos. Viva Van Story's Sheer Korero BooksIn the stunning follow-up to Viva Van Story: Bullet Bras and Backseat Betties, the incredibly talented NYC pinup photographer explores the eroticism of transparency Themed around the idea of transparency, from nylon to latex, silk to plastic and muslin to glass, Viva Van Story's brilliantly-lit shots of the iconic models on the fetish scene (Mosh, Angela Ryan, Eden Berlin, and more) are distinguished by a host of astonishing new locations, atmospheric retro moods, and Viva's boundary-pushing eroticism. Everyone who loved Viva's Pinups will love this collection, while anyone who has not yet discovered Viva will be blown away by the latest work of the East Coast's leading pinup photographer. |
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