Here was an author who was irreverent, scatological, yet profound; and also completely uninterested in the conventions of literature yet able, just through language, to sustain our interest despite nothing actually happening.
But once he had escaped, he held on to his identity as a Catalan, as a freedom fighter, all the more devoutly and from it developed an intimate visual language, which sustained him all of his working life.
The technical legal language is "sustained national or international acclaim and recognition".
The results showed that, compared to the single language condition, sustained bilingual control (mixed language condition) induced activation in the bilateral inferior frontal, middle prefrontal and frontal gyri (BA 45/46).
Rather than listening passively to a simple auditory stimulus, higher order cognitive processes including language and sustained attention were necessary for word recognition.
Amitav Ghosh refused his 2001 award for The Glass Palace partly because it excludes the "many languages that sustain the cultural and literary lives" of the countries it covers.
Ghosh announced his decision yesterday in a letter to The Times of India, in which he argued that the name "Commonwealth" for a literary or cultural grouping could "only be a misnomer" so long as it excluded the many languages that sustained the cultural and literary lives of those countries.
In a letter to the Times of India, he argued that the name "Commonwealth" for a literary or cultural grouping could "only be a misnomer" so long as it excluded the many languages that sustained the cultural lives of those countries.
