There were so many kinds of drugs and for so many purposes that no one being could grasp the significance of the sheer multiplicity itself.

My own tendency is quite otherwise, and the sheer multiplicity of patterns and textures offered by classical music suggests that the music encourages acoustic loitering.

In addition the closeness of the alliance and the sheer multiplicity of contacts were themselves a major cause of ill-feeling - as in a family.

But then, equally, the sheer multiplicity of the material makes it difficult for the layman not to become disoriented.

Many suggest that classical music in this century has been no one thing or even an orderly progression but a sheer multiplicity if not a Babel of styles and idioms.

Both car buyers and auto salesmen are increasingly disconcerted by the sheer multiplicity of options.

Nevertheless, the sheer multiplicity of sights made their gathering lively as well as enigmatic.

His device of confounding, scattering, and overwhelming the opposition by the sheer multiplicity of his accusations is by no means his only contribution to demagogic practice.

When he had first come to the jungle he had been awed by the sheer multiplicity of beast and blossom, the relentless parade of life here.

The sheer multiplicity is overwhelming.