The truth about Ahmadinejad is ugly enough without sheer invention.
When was the last time a new band blew you away with the sheer invention and audacity of their guitar playing?
Music criticism, on the other hand, doesn't mean much next to the sheer lyrical invention that sweeps across an afternoon like this.
The tale is sheer invention, the footnote not scholarship but sleaze.
The series is exceptional in two ways: first the sheer graphic invention with which Fukase describes and interprets the birds.
But the beauty of the songs, coupled with the sheer invention of his production, is rapturous.
(The threat of a lawsuit seemed remote in these moments when sheer invention struck.)
But the menu expresses the Ducasse doctrine that tradition matters more than sheer invention.
He dismissed this as "sheer invention" circulated desperately by defeated plotters.
Brody's Jerusalemic association is not a sheer modern invention.