Coincidentally they are not the only people in recent books about women trapped in close, sustained relationships with their captors, even to the point of bearing children.
Mysterious intonations emerge right away when the four natural horns in the orchestra play one of Mr. Ligeti's close, sustained chords, which, because of the instruments' conflicting tunings, begins to generate beats.
Finally, persons who are unemployed or who have occupations with irregular working hours (e.g., writers) or close sustained contact with alcohol (e.g., diplomats and bartenders) may be prone to the development of alcoholism.
The last picture of Jerome shows him propped immobile in a hospital bed, eyes closed, sustained only by a clutch of tubes and wires.
Clijsters could not come close to sustaining her form, losing the second set in 23 minutes by the same score as Williams cut her error rate and finished off points at the net.
"Inception" and "Toy Story 3," virtually alone among the scores of summer releases, came close to sustaining the dream of Old Hollywood, spawned back when the movies enjoyed a monopoly on visual entertainment and preserved the utopian capitalist ideal of the summer blockbuster.
He gave the Dodgers an interesting final six weeks last season (.331), but could not come close to sustaining it.
Information at the meeting affirmed that SARS is spread principally by droplets dispersed in coughs and sneezes among people with close and sustained contact with an infected individual.
Mr Klaus, who was hit by plastic balls from close range, sustained a slight injury in his arm, a doctor said.
In each of his books, Orner's crystalline sentences and his ability to pay close and sustained attention to small moments transform the ordinary elements of each story into an even more astonishing whole.
