Sentence examples for his sustaining from inspiring English sources

Two months later, our editorialist was aggrieved at the sight of the novelist James Boyd having to abandon work and descend "into the chill of Fifth Avenue … in order to "take his sustaining whiff of tobacco".

Here he often held his fingers splayed flat against the keys, barely touching his sustain pedal.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in appreciation of his sustained commitment and wise counsel.

It evokes Bach's form and craft but not his sustained intensity.

His sustained intensity, again, is impressive, but the performance sorely needs more variety.

(On Saturday afternoon, his sustained ronds de jambes en l'air alone made you want to cry with admiration).

Buttler's unbeaten 116 left his England team-mates speechless as they watched his sustained power-hitting and ingenious deflections.

Mr. Rudd's boyish charm wears thin at times, probably because there is no script to support his sustained improvisations.

But in 1989 Brown gave him a special degree, a Bachelor of Philosophy, for his "sustained service to the university".

Some of his sustained high passages turned leathery, but the part is punishing, and Mr. Honeywell dispatched it fearlessly over all.

Mr. Simon made expressive use of his sustain pedal, so that even his more dissonant runs suggested a ripple instead of a rumble.