sheer fantasy

collocation in English

meaningsofsheerandfantasy

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sheer
adjective
uk
/ʃɪər/us
/ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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fantasy
noun
uk
/ˈfæn.tə.si/us
/ˈfæn.tə.si/
a pleasant situation that you enjoy thinking about but is unlikely to happen, or the activity of imagining things ...
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(Definition ofsheerandfantasyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsheer fantasy

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This presentation of the character of manufactorial work at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries issheerfantasy.
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This proposal issheerfantasyand the product of a feverish mind.
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Such a solution is, to my mind,sheerfantasy.
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The idea that the assemblies, with their small raft of circumscribed powers, will take control of anyone's or anything's destiny issheerfantasy.
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I regard that assheerfantasy.
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Surely that must besheerfantasy.
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They reduce their own faults to an infinitesimal point which is almost non-existent, but, on the other hand, they exaggerate our faults to an extent which becomessheerfantasy.
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First, it is such an unusual and traumatic event that the idea that that power could be used as a general lever for policy issheerfantasy.
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At the same time, the story they chose issheerfantasy, not in its glancing details but in its emotional momentum.
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Each approach to identifying a location has been different, varying in degrees of scientific procedure, empirical investigation, informed hypothesis, wishful thinking, fervent belief, andsheerfantasy.
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Kircher's description, if notsheerfantasy, may have been based on reports of other writers (as detailed below) who refer to the creature as a droop-eared cat.
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