No longer the dadaist enfant terrible, he has lightened up a little, and through sheer longevity and productivity he has taught us how to read him.

Maybe the remarkable Williams sisters, through sheer longevity of excellence, or Maria Sharapova, through glamour and brilliance, from tennis.

By then I was in college and Aunt Birdie, through dint of sheer longevity, had unexpectedly become an heiress.

Under a regime of fascists or monarchists or plutocrats, he would have risen to prominence just as he had under the present one, by sheer longevity.

The major reason is that the show's sheer longevity has made it a tourist attraction in its own right, along with the Tower of London and Madame Tussaud's.

But the sheer longevity of the program, which now provides vouchers to some 2,000 students, assures it a place in education history.

Although The Journal kept no statistics on the letter's effectiveness, its sheer longevity, direct-mail experts say, is its own best testament.

Paige's sheer longevity as a ballplayer would be difficult to grasp even if he had not lived an eventful life.

FOR sheer longevity and number of viewers, nothing on American television compares to the variety show "Sábado Gigante," or Giant Saturday.

But the reason it's a landmark (apart from sheer longevity) is its role in DC's U Street corridor, once known as the "black Broadway".