Sheer may refer to:
- Sheer fabric, a semi-transparent and flimsy fabric
- Sheer (ship), a measure of longitudinal deck curvature in naval architecture
- Sheer curation, a lightweight approach to digital curation
- Sheer Islands, Nunavut, Canada
- Sheer Music, a record label
- Ireen Sheer, a German-British pop singer
- The Sheer, a Dutch pop band
Famous quotes containing the word sheer:
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term—meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching—there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”
—Ansel Adams (1902–1984)
“... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on “doing nothing.””
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)