well-sustained

It was a brilliant example of a well-sustained bluff.

Season finale frenzy: 'House' 2009

They're a brilliant example of a well-sustained bluff that tricked viewers into thinking House had turned to Cuddy for some detoxifying sexual healing.

Critic's Corner Monday 2009

Arguing that Crossfire was not a "makeshift film built only to carry a burden of propaganda tamped in at every obvious crevice," Coleman pointed out that the film's message was, in fact, "heightened by well-sustained suspense, so that it moves rapidly and inexorably to its denouement, with all of the intriguing appeal that has made detective-story fans of poet and proletarian alike."

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

There was a well-sustained manic energy throughout the evening, and the five real Boston-area drag divas couldn't have put more care and concentration into their work.

DesignerBlog Will 2006

There was a well-sustained manic energy throughout the evening, and the five real Boston-area drag divas couldn't have put more care and concentration into their work.

Archive 2006-05-01 Will 2006

It commenced with a well-sustained fire of letters on each side about the physical qualities of submarine cables, and the practical results attainable in the way of rapid signalling through them.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Mr. Horne because he was in an undress; but he himself certainly lost much of his composed, well-sustained dignity of demeanour.

Tales of all countries 2004

If it's put in a sequence, or in a program that's well-sustained, and long term, we can really change civilization.

CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2003 2003

You were sent here, not on a routine scout, but to search out the source of a well-sustained rumor that the Guild has made a discovery which will give them superiority in space.

The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

Notwithstanding this our clearly defined and well-sustained course of action and our geographical position, so remote from Europe, increasing disposition has been manifested by some of its Governments to supervise and in certain respects to direct our foreign policy.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.