All 9 Uses of
sustain
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Then it was said that large, established railroad systems were essential to the public welfare; and that the collapse of one of them would be a national catastrophe; and that if one such system had happened to sustain a crushing loss in a public-spirited attempt to contribute to international good will, it was entitled to public support to help it survive the blow.†
Chpt 1.4
- The motion was a smooth flight on a sustained impulse, as if the engine hung above the rails, riding a current.†
Chpt 1.8
- The huge spreads of full newspaper pages, the articles in magazines, the radio voices, the newsreels, all were a single, long, sustained scream-about the "Cinderella Girl" and the "Democratic Businessman."†
Chpt 2.2
- "Midas told me that Miss Taggart has to be treated for shock," he said, "not for the one sustained, but for the ones to come."†
Chpt 3.1
- Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil.†
Chpt 3.7
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal, Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice.†
Chpt 3.7
- …one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life, so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value, but man, who has no…†
Chpt 3.7
- …your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life, so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value, but man, who has no automatic values, has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul…†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities