Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Have you ever heard of any evidence to sustain such a charge? A. No. I don't believe the charge...
...play as much of character as of plot, and with the aid of an excellent cast the characters sustain the story and give it a tense and stimulating vitality. Mr. Huston is more than excellent; one feels, as depth after depth of his characterization unrolls, that his conduct in each successive scene is the logical sequal to what he has done and said before. John Irwin, as the son ignorant of the ways of the world, much more so of the ways of carnival dancers manages to be unsophisticated without being simple. Eleanor Williams, as the girl Nifty cast...
...fount of its inspiration. Certainly it is not a periodical for the layman; rather is it one of the arts and for artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting pamphlet. It may or may not sustain the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but its first issue, by the solidity of its appearance and its finished air, gives promise of a hardy line of successors...
...Most High sustain...
This ghostliness is what, if anything, marks Poet Robinson's limitation. He has written exquisitely of high romance. His lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...