All 7 Uses of
sustain
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- The mystery of what is space and time may be made more understandable by this explanation, but now the burden of sustaining the order of the universe rests on "facts."†
Part 3 *sustaining = providing support or necessities
- They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose.†
Part 2
- Stage fright can't sustain that kind of effort month after month.†
Part 2
- It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.†
Part 3
- In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out.†
Part 3
- The ultimate effect of the non-Euclidian geometries becomes nothing more than a magician's mumbo jumbo in which belief is sustained purely by faith!†
Part 3
- He crosses a lonesome valley, out of the mythos, and emerges as if from a dream, seeing that his whole consciousness, the mythos, has been a dream and no one's dream but his own, a dream he must now sustain of his own efforts.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities
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(2)
(sustain as in: sustained through the ages) to continue through time
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(3)
(sustain as in: sustained wounds) to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, sustained can be voiced by a judge in a court of law to indicate that an objection is upheld.