Sentence examples for hardly sustains from inspiring English sources

"This Time Tomorrow" draws its central characters with great sympathy, but they are only three pitiably fragile lives, and their starved narrative, while moving, hardly sustains the novel.

Many of the best new movies are, like repertory viewing, increasingly part of a niche market that hardly sustains theatrical releases; yet the film industry as a whole has not yet caught up with this change in habits.

In his peak years, he hardly sustained any injuries.

Both the French and the American generations were glorious anachronisms from the very start, fulfilling and perpetuating classical artistic ideals in places that could hardly sustain them.

There was so little energy in the building Sunday that the fans could hardly sustain the boos or the "Fire Isiah" chants.

This is in contrast with the short-term emergency approaches that often undermine local institutions and are hardly sustained after the crisis is over.

There is something of a disconnect, I think, between the book's power as a testament to New York and its evocation of a city hardly sustained by institutions at all.

Until she relocated to Rikers Island, where she awaits indictment, Ms. Neathway, who is British, had been living in a luxury rental building on Leonard Street with a round swimming pool, all of which her status as an unemployed saleswoman could have hardly sustained.

Although it's not strange to see throngs of people in India at any time of day or night, the village's unpaved roads can hardly sustain the enveloping flood of attendees who come to worship Aravan, and celebrate the night when Krishna took the form of a woman to become his wife.

And such massive traffic increases are hardly sustained.

The experimental results indicated that the MgO-activated slag could hardly sustain the strength after 150 days when cured in the brine solutions.