And, believe me, the last couple of years were sheer hell.

"Being his White House chief of staff could be sheer hell."

It was not so bad after the sheer hell of the first hour.

Yep, he thought, it was going to be sheer hell.

But for seven and a half weeks it was sheer hell.

Winter's father said afterwards: 'We've been through 20 months of sheer hell.

"It was sheer hell for the first six months," she recalled.

And if it's not hard enough, you'll make it tougher on yourself just for the sheer hell of a job well fought.

Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it?

He put her through sheer hell every day of those nine months.