Newman took sustenance from close friendships with Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and, starting around 1947, Jackson Pollock.
As prisoners weaken, they are taken to hospitals, but physicians said they could not ethically force patients to eat or take sustenance intravenously.
"This is a practice that takes sustenance from state-led homophobia, but has been copied from leagues in western Europe," the report says.
Like a vulture, Avery eventually takes sustenance from several escorts ("It seemed frankly churlish to refuse"), but in the blameless way of all carrion-eaters.
In a week that saw painful conflict over the meaning of life and suffering, the Pontiff grew unable to take sustenance orally.
Inside the polished wooden lobby, where the old raj had taken sustenance, I collapse on a roomy wicker chair with a mineral water.
Most denizens of the Hill District take it on faith that she was born at the dawn of African slavery, and Wilson gives her the power to "wash" supplicants' souls in racial memories that help them take sustenance from the past, rather than being overwhelmed by it.
This polished story collection takes its sustenance from class conflict, rough men and strong women, and the intersection between hotheads and cool customers.
Petrarch climbed Ventoux wearing a dress, and toting a copy of Augustine's Confessions; in his account he tells us he stopped occasionally to take spiritual sustenance from random readings.
Then again, there are days — especially in August, especially when the weather doesn't play nice — when the celestial figures take their sustenance elsewhere, and the orbs in City Hall seem to burn a little less brightly.
The people who depend on the reefs for food, and for shelter from the waves; the economies that count on tourist dollars; the people who take spiritual sustenance from the ongoing drama beneath the waves.
