carrying on
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"The world to a lot of us is very loud, very noisy, very crowded, very bright, very smelly, and it's exhausting suppressing your response to all of this and carrying on."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
"It's really important because even if people are working and carrying on with daily life, I know everyone is still traumatised," said the 40-year-old woman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Who do you see as a younger musician carrying on what you guys do?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
What’s the point of carrying on if your day’s been reduced to nothing but consumer choices made via smartphone?
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
The complete nonsense of his framing me as an ideal wife, and of Ma carrying on with the sham, was just too much.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
It was less of an axiom than an ethos for a carrying-on, proud people:
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2014
Ms. Murphy juxtaposes the comedy, the heartache and the carrying-on with a deft hand, so that sentimentality is kept at bay.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
Well, there couldn’t have been any carrying-on down at the store or we’d have heard about it long time ago.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“That’s what she’s struggling with. The carrying-on part. Is she there?”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
"What's all this we hear about your carrying-on this morning?" demanded Jack, almost immediately.
From Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold by Beach, Charles Amory
Most of the lame comedic scenes in the opera involve Strauss’s attempts to depict the baron’s absurd carryings-on.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
The occasion for these campy carryings-on was a festival of 19th century music presented by Kansas City's venturesome, three-year-old Performing Arts Foundation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Pallottine order, carryings-on over cash WHY A SWEEPSTAKES? screamed the copy in the direct-mail ad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friends report no apparent danger that either is about to indulge in celebrity carryings-on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she was complaining about the carryings-on at the jook and Tea Cake snapped, “Aw, don’t make God look so foolish—findin’ fault wid everything He made.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
