Sentence examples for brought off with from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

Perry's big finale -- a thankless, speechifying scene that Mr. Russell brings off with remarkable aplomb -- feels curiously irrelevant, given what's happening in other parts of the city.

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.

The sex scenes between Foster and Basinger are brought off subtly, with gentle humor, but, in a case like this, tastefulness may also be a form of avoidance — a way of keeping to a tony surface when the situation calls out for emotion and mess.