Sentence examples for managed to make something from inspiring English sources

I think that has been key to how we've managed to make something as violent and dangerous as surgery succeed.

Downing's corner from the left was overhit, but Carroll managed to make something of it at the far post.

"I was so impressed how she managed to make something out of nothing," Ms. Breiman says of Ms. Janssen.

Unbelievably, the Bucs almost managed to make something out of Winston's the play, only for the play to die on receiver DeSean Jackson's fingers.

First, because Keller had indeed managed to make something as mundane as watermelon taste different -- it had the crisp density of a McIntosh apple.

Iyun Ashani Harrison, a 1999 graduate, managed to make something fresh of that familiar subject, the personal relationship, in "Of Roots and Stone".

And Ms. Kapoor, with her long Modigliani face, manages to make something of a role that often beggars belief.

In his first novel, UNTOUCHABLE (Tyrus, $24.95), Scott O'Connor speaks softly and somehow manages to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters — like the gruesome mop-up after someone has taken a gun to his head.

Among the supporting cast, the impeccable Judy Kaye, in the regulation role of a Prohibitionist battle-ax, manages to make something fresh of a drunken scene that requires her to swing from a chandelier.

It's a classic story of someone who starts off down on his luck and disregarded, but who, through force of personality, hard work and sheer determination, manages to make something of himself.

Ms. Slovin did manage to make something there: the Museum of the Moving Image, which calls itself the only museum in the United States — and the first in the world — devoted to film, television and digital media and from which Ms. Slovin plans to retire in February, after 30 years as director.