What is really at the core of narcissists is an instability in their ability to feel and sustain feeling bigger, larger, smarter and more successful than everyone else which they need to feel stable.
And Empson concludes that "limited as this form [the double sestina] may be, the capacity to accept a limitation so unflinchingly, the capacity even to conceive so large a form as a unit of sustained feeling, is one that has been lost since that age".
As their relationship matured and the distance between them grew, she denied her reality that she was not getting enough of him to sustain feeling connected.
The problem arises when the same nebulous word is used to describe both rare moments of euphoria and the kind of sustained feeling of satiation we're told to strive for.
If anything, Mr. bin Laden's elusiveness will serve to perpetuate public concerns about another terrorist attack, which in turn will sustain feelings of national unity and support for the president.
Also there's an increase in testosterone, and dopamine can sustain feelings of intense romantic love".
Equally importantly, both parents and youth sustained feelings of self-efficacy for diabetes management during treatment despite behavioral and hormonal changes in early adolescence, ages 11 14 years, which can disrupt diabetes care and glycemic control (3).
The attractive and talented Phillies resisted strongly even while losing the first two games in their home Citizens Bank Park, sustaining the feeling among fans everywhere that this old-franchise Series, unlike the short, one-sided finales we'd seen in the past five years, was about the big boys again.
The family is a little island of people who aren't supposed to have sexual feelings for each other (except for the parents who, in these circumstances, have their work cut out for themselves with the task of sustaining sexual feelings for one another).
