Newman took sustenance from close friendships with Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and, starting around 1947, Jackson Pollock.
"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.
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.
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.
They were not quite the "slaves of defunct economists", but certainly took intellectual sustenance from a group of mostly Austrian thinkers, such as Friedrich von Hayek, whose work assumed that an increased role for the state (such as was represented by Labour's policies in Britain) would lead eventually to what Hayek himself called "the state of mind in which Nazism could become successful".
Its takes its sustenance from the enormous wealth generated by Wall Street as well as the presence of a large "trustifarian" class.
At the halfway point of their journey to the 2015 World Cup, England can take more sustenance from this performance than either of the two wins over Australia and Argentina that preceded it.
Ghost shrimp are bottom dwellers and they get their sustenance from pieces of food that have fallen from above.
