Sentence examples for substance sustenance from inspiring English sources

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And yet in both directions you can find slickness and a certain paucity of content — or substance, sustenance or genuine pleasure.

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Demons present the same basic difficulties, as do fairies, and ghosts defy pretty much every biological principle: among other problems, they have no substance, require no sustenance, and do not decay or die.

The symbolic role of bread as both sustenance and substance is illustrated in a sermon given by Saint Augustine: This bread retells your history … You were brought to the threshing floor of the Lord and were threshed … While awaiting catechism, you were like grain kept in the granary … At the baptismal font you were kneaded into a single dough.

Sustenance means growth.

Leibniz frequently uses imagistic metaphors to describe God's sustenance of finite substances.

Substance of craving,Salt oil of sustenance, down to the husk.

It's like asking, 'Would you rather eat or see a play?' One is sustenance, the other is substance.

A thread that ran through many of the deaths was periods of substance use or abuse; from Bowie snorting so much coke he'd only consume red peppers and milk for sustenance, to Carrie Fisher's "coke nail" on the set of Return of the Jedi.

Sustenance and titillation.

But first: sustenance.

We needed the sustenance.

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