Sentence examples for it carries off from inspiring English sources

But in building and sustaining a mood of anger and outrage while delivering enough laughs to keep an audience amused, it carries off a neat balancing act.

It carries off many adult AIDS victims in poor countries and, even in rich ones, is the final shove through the gates of death for many of the elderly and sick.

For a fortnight they occupied the city and systematically plundered it, carrying off many valuable works of art.

European explorers rediscovered the place in the 19th and early 20th centuries and pillaged it, carrying off thousands of manuscripts and paintings stored in the so-called Library Cave.

The Iranian divorce drama, directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Peyman Maadi and Leila Hatami, has been in pole position for the Oscar ever since it carried off the Golden Globe last month.

And all of it carried off with an air of holier-than-thou sanctity -- no less apparent than Pat Robertson's when he told me my arms were too short to box with God.

But it is Ms. Bosworth who carries off the movie's toughest balancing act.

It wasn't exactly a revolutionary thesis, but it was carried off with some style and a lot of good humour.

A lot of it was carried off Enron's balance sheet.

Far from didactic or preachy, it was carried off with irresistibly good-humored charm.

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