Not because of squeamishness, as you intimate, but from sheer inability.

Hayward, in London too, intended to spend the winter abroad, but remained week after week from sheer inability to make up his mind to go.

The security vacuum along it is emblematic of the sheer inability to maintain control over key areas of the country.

She stopped at last, and stayed where she'd stopped, for sheer inability to turn and go back again to where she'd come from.

He would feel worse--and probably continue alive instead, from sheer inability to make his mind up.

But Jake also knew the value of not showing an ounce of frustration at the sheer inability of his venture capitalists to grasp reality.

At last my panting eased from the sheer inability of my lungs to continue to force air swiftly through my nostrils any longer.

Some runners can recall the sheer inability to take another step after the pain hits.

The /Peasants/, which the author never entirely got through, was taken up repeatedly, and as often put aside from sheer inability to proceed.

Fighting the drunkenness, the agitation, the sheer inability to concentrate for any length of time, he forced himself through some of these accounts.