What is "suspends"

Usage examples of "suspends".

To avoid this painful experience of a splintered identity, a man whose values are contradictory will commonly seek to escape knowledge of his contradictions by means of evasion, repression, rationalization, eta Thus, to escape a problem created by a failure of thought, he suspends thinking.

To escape a threat to his sense of personal identity, he suspends his ego—he suspends his self qua thinking, judging entity.

In order not to lose anything of the affair, he scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys.

During her entire stay there, he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and precipitates the whole soul on a single point.

It includes the death by hanging of Judas, his face upturned to the branch that suspends him.

Inside, a fishhook over the lip of the gorget suspends a string and a package hanging inside the cuirass where the heart would be.