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- adjective That does not
sustain .
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Examples
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The people who donate to Sarah Palin are the same people who buy cotton candy at the circus; sure it's pretty and sweet, but ultimately unsustaining and without substance.
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But desolation and death, no matter how likely, offer unsustaining subject matter for an extended programme of fiction.
Archive 2008-08-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over.
Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008
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But desolation and death, no matter how likely, offer unsustaining subject matter for an extended programme of fiction.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Fantasy Review Vol. 1 No 4 Aug-Sep 1947 Chris Perridas 2008
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At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over.
The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY tanita davis 2008
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His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
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His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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I shall then proceed to a fresh sole, and with the pea-soup I will finish a not unsustaining meal. '
The Magician 1919
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His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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