A correspondent describing his pioneer work at St Hilda's mission in a slum district of Darlington wrote of "a sheer spiritual romance, full of interest, delight and humour.

More than anyone else, Socrates symbolised the sheer romance of that Brazil class of 1982.

There will never be a golden age and it is sheer romance to think we can ever be other than what we are now.

One anecdote rebuts the popular notion that a vintner's life is sheer romance.

Gastronome articles read like this: "For the main course, the marriage of Tornedos Sautes Chasseur in a red wine reduction sauce with mushrooms and chervil and Chateau Haut-Brion 1970 was sheer romance."

Tourist etiquette seems to demand that a visitor swoon in a dead faint at every mention of the sheer romance of Shah Jahan's enterprise.

For sheer romance there are few dining spots in Connecticut that can match this location.

That was sheer romance.

Delarivier Manley-under interrogation after the publication of her scandalous Atalantis (1709)-replied that she had written a work of sheer romance, a fairy tale located on the famous fictional island.

So neither of them was greatly moved by the sheer romance and adventure of the thing.