Time, being an entropic phenomenon, wears away not only our bodies but the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and we seem to always be buttressing up those narratives so as to maintain our cognitive and emotional coherence.
As jobs become scarce, internships are viewed as an alternative way of buttressing up one's credentials.
But the top-down excellence is now buttressed by bottom-up endeavour.
As this happens, consumers will be less ready to borrow against the value of their homes in order to maintain their living standards.The willingness of households to pile up debt buttressed the growth in consumption and overall demand during the past few years.
Further, some population experts foresee developments that could wind up buttressing the forecasts of the Social Security Administration.
I knew that she was building him up, buttressing him with both genuine admiration and her own brand of anxious braggadocio, and that her overarching concern was that I might fail to see him as she wished me to — in the most dawning light, his pose steadfast and solitary.
She said that because of his Asian face and imperfect English, he was "working two times the American doctors". I knew that she was building him up, buttressing him with both genuine admiration and her own brand of anxious braggadocio, and that her overarching concern was that I might fail to see him as she wished me to in the most dawning light, his pose steadfast and solitary.
He ended up buttressing the buttons with bits of toothpicks that he carefully glued into place.
Yet the cover-up charges were buttressed by biased prosecutors and judges who colluded to ensure the downfall of the president, he believes.
In the mid-1980s, he left to take up full-time writing, buttressed by the success of his novel Hawksmoor and his biography of TS Eliot.
