We need grit!

Now, you just grit your teeth,

...for sheer dumb luck.

I want you to get your grit on.

We survived by sheer luck.

It was just sheer terror.

He ran sheer into the wall.

A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

It is a sheer waste of time.

That is sheer nonsense. INTERCOM BUZZlNG Yes?

Creation is an act of sheer will.

Her success was due to sheer hard work.

A sheer bulk surpassing many million earthly libraries.

Grit is the tenacity to keep going in the face of challenge.

And so what happened was that I started just becoming an editorial illustrator through, you know, sheer whatever, sheer ignorance.

To my right is sheer shale. It's coming off.

Grit is a concept developed by Dr. Angela Duckworth from the University of Pennsylvania.

The dark circles around raccoons' eyes... are from sheer fatigue.

She was on the verge of fainting out of sheer terror.

He recalled that a collision had been avoided by sheer luck.

I mean just think of the sheer variety a baby's face,

New York City has long been unusual because of its sheer size.

Now if those 12,000 chairs freaked me out with the sheer number,

Whenever you bring me food and drink sheer disgust turns my stomach.

Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report.

It was sheer coincidence that Mary and I were on the same train.

Then he uncovered his hand and it was sheer white to the onlookers.

Then he uncovered his hand and it appeared sheer white to the onlookers.

Consider for a moment the sheer number of planetary firsts in recent memory.

The other big dynamic of change is the sheer performance of underperforming asphalt.

The steering wheel moves by itself, the gas, the brakes... it's sheer magic.

The other thing that was so striking was the sheer number of volunteers.

But I'm not kidding about some of this, and it gets a little bit to the grit issue.

Miss, that dress is splendid, it has a sheer silhouette and is very classy.

And if you want an example of perseverance, grit and strength in a beautiful, little package, it is her.

Do you lustfully approach men instead of women? Nay, you engage in acts of sheer ignorance.

This is for the sheer emotional catharsis of having people defeat the problems that defeated them.

I managed to stick in both the zeppelin and an ocean liner out of sheer enthusiasm.

Olé! to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

Now, the sheer numbers of these hand axes shows that they can't have been made for butchering animals.

But I might out of sheer funk and misery. You'd better not, said the Voice, with quiet emphasis.

But they knew that the sheer length of this journey would stretch their supplies of food and water.

What makes ayahuasca fascinating is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it.

It's got to focus very narrowly and clearly on that little seed and be able to pick it out against that background (the grit).

Well, she won't be much use to you on Fiji now... not unless it snows and you need something to grit the path with,