The phrase "a work that manages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a piece of art, literature, or any creative work that successfully achieves a particular effect or conveys a specific message.
Example: "The novel is a work that manages to capture the complexities of human emotions in a profound way."
Alternatives: "a piece that succeeds in" or "a creation that achieves".
It's a work that manages to be both impossibly cheery, and contemplative.
But the Schoenberg was admirably tight, capturing a work that manages to be simultaneously confident and ambiguous.
But The Enchanter is, in its subtle, light-spirited way, a triumph, a work that manages to say interesting things about Nabokov while remaining faithful to its own artistic spirit.
Neil Cockburn "Of his many, many films, Manhattan stands out as a work that manages to be both a love letter to one of the great cities and a strikingly personal self-portrait.
Mud, which also stars Sam Shepard and Michael Shannon, is a very fine film about innocence, father figures and love, a work that manages to be thrilling, unsentimental and emotionally rewarding.
A highly accessible work that manages to be both sensitive and sensible.
Niko refers to himself as "your humble narrator," which I took as a sly reference to "A Clockwork Orange," another work that manages to inject some sympathy into a cold, dark soul.
Foulds called Harris's book, published by Thames and Hudson, his personal "top choice", describing it as "a brilliant piece of work that manages to be both comprehensive and coherent as it tells a compelling story about 20th century English art".
Ranging from vivid woodblock prints in a Social Realist style, to multimedia installations depicting the artist's imprisonment, to emblematic, mural-size history paintings, the show presents an ambitious body of work that manages to be visually inventive, even entertaining, without straying far from its activist roots.
Although "Repast" presents his early poems, it is a jagged, one-of-a-kind opus, which endures both as a personal testimony and as the rare poetic work that manages to capture the ineffable on the page.
It's an effective if incomplete reintroduction to Feininger's work that manages to capture the persistent innocence and lack of self-knowledge that limited it.
