Although she comfortably sustains an English accent, Ms. Ringwald is an essentially American Sally, much closer in sensibility to Liza Minnelli (in the movie version) than to Ms. Richardson.
A lot of her concentration seems to be going towards sustaining the English accent, but she gets away with it, just; you are always rooting for Williams, no small commitment to extract from an audience and she pulls off the hardest scene in the show – the title song, so shopworn as to have long ago collapsed into kitsch – with brilliant urgency.
The immigrant kids are taking over the culture, doing a better job at being alive than the "bitter, watchful minority". So is Englishness sustained by folk of English birth or by newcomers?
His victory (August 14) over the English in the Battle of the Yellow Ford on the River Blackwater, Ulster the most serious defeat sustained by the English in the Irish wars—sparked a general revolt throughout the country.
Published in pamphlet form in 1896, it was the first sustained treatment in English about the man known in rabbinic circles simply as the "Genius" (Gaon).3 The essay was based on a paper Schechter had delivered at London's Jews' College in 1890.
The Tachikawa-ryu, which has yet to receive sustained attention in English-language scholarship, began in the twelfth century and later came to be denounced as heretical by mainstream Buddhist institutions.
College English provides more sustained and effective support for non-English majors than that which is available in many other contexts, including programs for foreign students in many English-speaking countries.
The unionist vision for Scotland, many Scots complain, is of a poor wee country sustained by subsidies from English taxpayers.
As far as Waca barrages go, Mike Denness's 1974-75 English tourists sustained as harrowing a spell of fast bowling as any.
