Sentence examples for bring off with from inspiring English sources

Brahms's Quartet in A minor is a hard piece to bring off, with its curious blend of noble sentiment and restless impetuosity.

Since inaugural addresses are by tradition high-toned, bipartisan affairs, this was an immensely difficult feat to bring off with grace.

The theme is developed in shorter variations on Voltaire's liaison with Madame du Chtelet, the wintry amours of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, even the affair Boswell was too young and inexperienced to bring off with the remarkable Zelide.

St . Petersburgseems to require that suicides and assassinations be brought off with fantastical panache.

Courbet's "higher realities" tend to be clichés gussied up with Old Masterish airs and brought off with practiced panache.

That final, potentially melodramatic line is brought off with a poised efficiency that seems inevitable, and characteristic.

He set a fleet tempo in the dancing finale that the players brought off with vigor and command.

Its thickly layered surface bespeaks long, onerous toil for a kind of effect that Picasso brought off with ease.

In terms of style, what Julian Schnabel performed with operatic bombast, David Salle with theatrical gall, and any number of others with academic irony, Basquiat brought off with spontaneous conviction.

The book was brought off with considerable delicacy — it's really an affectionately detailed portrait of a suburban girl's life.

This is his most purely enjoyable picture for years, a Hitchcockian nightmare with a persistent, stomach-turning sense of disquiet, brought off with confidence and dash.