sheer frustration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsheerandfrustration
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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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frustration
noun
uk/frʌsˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/frʌsˈtreɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of being annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want, or something that makes you feel ...
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(Definition ofsheerandfrustrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The voice may be fainter now, the call obscured by the bureaucracy, power politics, thesheerfrustrationwhich has intervened since that time.
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It is not just thesheerfrustrationof sitting in a traffic jam surrounded by traffic cones, all of which seem to grin.
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Nevertheless, they had no other course but to take strike action because of thesheerfrustrationof the position in which they found themselves.
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They become very frustrated and do things out ofsheerfrustration.
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As any experienced teacher knows, corporal punishment is born ofsheerfrustration.
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But it was brought about by thesheerfrustrationof someone who was, probably justifiably, in a hurry.
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On that occasion, he experienced thesheerfrustrationand anger that they are experiencing.
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Thesheerfrustrationand anguish of farmers, their sense of vulnerability and foreboding, cannot be exaggerated.
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Sometimes large groups of parents have attended my advice surgeries or parent governors have come to me out ofsheerfrustration.
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It is born not out of high principle, but out of thesheerfrustrationof being out of office for 18 years.
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Many of us go round and round that circle insheerfrustration, not for ourselves, but for our constituents.
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In the end, out ofsheerfrustrationand upset, they backed off.
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Often it issheerfrustration.
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Quite apart from that, it is thesheerfrustrationthat can mask the need in a swiftly changing world to accept change and all that it implies.
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He was not aware of his dyslexia until he was 42 and many people who are undiagnosed and unhelped lose all hope of achieving their potential insheerfrustration.
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Yet every developer who appears—and there have been many—is treated with suspicion and often hostility, and usually gives up and moves away out ofsheerfrustration.
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Accidents on our roads are often due to thesheerfrustrationthat many motorists experience after being in long traffic jams or to being unable to overtake on inadequate roads.
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Those limitations drove us to suggest the book alternative, insheerfrustrationat the costs that were being presented to us for changing the current system to that required.
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However desirable the objective, the movement always has to battle for permission here, planning there, money everywhere; and months and years are lost insheerfrustration.
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That does not mean that some of thesheerfrustrationof people who think that their lives are being ruined is not justified in some respects.
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