Sheer
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For the first time in years, Shi'ites were allowed to make the pilgrimage to Karbala to observe Ashura, and I was amazed by the
sheer
number of people and how fervently they practiced their religion.
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Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the
sheer
human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.
Now, the
sheer
numbers of these hand axes shows that they can't have been made for butchering animals.
It was just
sheer
terror.
And this is because the scientific worldview is so much more exciting, more poetic, more filled with
sheer
wonder than anything in the poverty-stricken arsenals of the religious imagination.
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