make or mar

These final details can make or mar the general effect more than is realized.

It's really wonderful, Pat, how much a little thing can do to make or mar a house.

The type of frame that you choose can either make or mar your work.

But the sons of Men die indeed and leave what they have made or marred.

It deserved independence, and the chance to make or mar its own future.

"I realised that, often, some of these women could make or mar their man.

Out of doors, there are several minor things that can make or mar a winter in the country.

The Lent term in my experience is the one that makes or mars the summer's examination results.

He is our master and He can make or mar.

He averred that the windows of a house made or marred it.

The old-timers will know just how much organization can make or mar a ship's happiness.

It is yours to make or mar the future of the human race, of which I am but a unit.

“I will make or mar,” he said, picking himself out of the wreckage.

Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or marring of it than poor Harry has had.

It’s little wonder that many of Browning’s greatest poems consider how reputations are made or marred.

How prosaic and undramatic are the moments in which a modern career is made or marred!

Interior fit outs can make or mar a commercial development, especially in the style conscious hospitality industry.

The fox women can make or mar journeys.

Chance will make or mar him.

A sceptical Churchill had told him that "it is a gamble - it will make or mar your political career."

If He wishes, He may make or mar.

In the hands of this woman lay a secret which could make or mar the happiness of the best and dearest of the party.

The skills, attitudes, prejudices and emotions that will make or mar the future, are all built into the foundation of character during the early, crucial years.

There he paused for a moment, feeling that he was on the brink of a discovery that would either make or mar his life.

In the words of Lady Elizabeth's mother, Albert would be "made or marred" by his choice of wife.