The craftsmanship is solid, the sincerity of feeling is sustained to the end; none of it is exceptional.
To me, that was more important than the pain I was currently feeling and sustained me during our divorce process.
What is really at the core of narcissists is an instability in their ability to feel and sustain feeling bigger, larger, smarter and more successful than everyone else which they need to feel stable.
That is a hard feeling to sustain on the fifth day of cold rain, when the sky is a winter prairie of clouds, and morning and afternoon look much the same.
It is a feeling that sustains you, that gets you out of bed in the morning even when your world is falling apart.
It's been that type of feeling that has sustained us really throughout the course of the year, but even more as I see people grow closer together.
By this and analogous uses of imagination, Dumas suggests, a life of feeling may be sustained in times that can seem engineered to crush it.
"The Yellow Birds" has a fragmentary quality that's suited to prose by a poet; it's better at evoking landscapes and states of feeling than at sustained psychological realism.
It does so with the compelling rhythms of the old-fashioned, sinister multi-generational potboiler, which Mr. Sinise and his expert cast, led by such formidable pros as James Gammon and Lois Smith, put across with the feeling of a sustained, maniacal cackle.
And Empson concludes that "limited as this form [the double sestina] may be, the capacity to accept a limitation so unflinchingly, the capacity even to conceive so large a form as a unit of sustained feeling, is one that has been lost since that age".
Unfortunately, this good feeling was never sustained through any of the spare measures on the left.
