Sentences with phrase «as pluck»

No playful breeze will cool your brow, No sunlight strike your face, As you pluck your strange, outlier fruit In the depths of cyberspace.

Charter boosters need to know, though, that DCP's success entailed plenty of luck as well as pluck.

Sold as a popular street food at train stations, markets and popular gathering places, choclo offers a childlike delight as you pluck the kernels from the cob and pop them into your mouth.

«I'm working on phasing carbon out of my life,» he tells me as he plucks his infant son, Huxley, from a plastic tub mounted to the front of a clunky - looking three - wheeled bicycle Griffith had brought back from Denmark; he is, naturally, intending to build a better, cooler version of it.

Alejandro showed great skill and vision as he plucked a high aerial ball to the ground with an unreal first touch and supplemented that with an excellent backheel flick to feed striker Romario Vieira who somehow fluffed his lines when through on goal.

«Gone are the times when a minister can pilfer billions of dollars as easy as plucking a piece of candy from the table,» he stated.

Sure enough, when I asked Russell Howe, a staff mathematician who had taken the test years ago, to try it again with a new batch of objects, he radiated something akin to joy as he plucked out one item after another, describing their functions in loving detail as he pulled, twisted, bent, and manipulated.

Typically I pluck my eyebrows every so often and I have to say this tool did a much better job at cleaning by brows up without causing as much discomfort as plucking.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be tagged a domestic drama, as it plucks near - penniless Ricki from her beer - soaked California stage and flings her to the Midwest.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be called a domestic drama, as it plucks its penniless main character from her beer - soaked California stage and sends her to the Midwest to deal with her wealthy ex-husband (Kevin Kline, playing off Streep as tenderly as in Sophie's Choice) and their suicidal adult daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real - life progeny), a victim of Ricki's long - ago abandonment.

Maintaining this level of teacher performance isn't as simple as plucking already - stellar educators from the top of the talent pool.

Other gameplay will involve shooting arrows in the first - person perspective and musical segments, such as plucking the strings of a lute through memorization to find a golden acorn.

Picking dandelions, and arranging them into bouquets as they plucked.

Not exact matches

Emergency crews plucked people from rooftops using aircraft, dump trucks, and boats as the floodwaters rose.

The man now plucked to run the Bank of Japan and revive the long stagnant economy was a career Ministry of Finance bureaucrat at the time exasperated that the central bank had - as he saw it - shirked its duty to end what was then already six years of deflation.

Clean Diesel would change all that, contended Bernd Pischetsrieder, whom Piëch had plucked from BMW to succeed him as CEO.

As those statutes pave the way for gun owners to bring their weapons along whenever they leave home, some of those owners wind up stowing their firearms in the glovebox, the center console, or under their seats — where they are ripe for the plucking.

Governor Andrew Cuomo plucked him from the Madison Square Garden Co., where he was serving as executive vice president for administration.

Johnson plucked Apple alum Mike Kramer from apparel - maker Kellwood as COO, and Dan Walker, also an Apple veteran, as chief talent officer.

As Nooyi, dressed in a fuchsia jacket, powers through the aisles, she's also plucking competitors» products to bring back to headquarters.

Those newer services have plucked away many former Pandora listeners, but the Oakland company has started courting them to come back with new offerings such as its «Premium Access» feature, which lets users try out its ad - free, on - demand service after watching a video ad.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

When Obama launched his presidential campaign a few years later, DuBois was plucked as its faith outreach director.

In so far as this involved the body as a possible enemy of spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

This is what a comprehensive contextual reading of Scripture leads to, instead of having to balance apparently contradictory texts against each other when they are plucked out as «proof texts.»

As for us preachers: «See, today I appoint you over nations and over Kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy, and to overthrow.»

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

Yes, Jesus was sarcastic, perhaps even cynical at times — such as when he instruct us to pluck out the wandering eyeball or cut off the offending hand — making light of the belief that sin might be removed surgically.

When the effigy was banned, that left the evergreens; mistletoe especially was useful, as it had berries that could be plucked after each kiss.

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

In the kitchen the chef was still holding his hands as if about to take hold of the scullery boy, and the kitchen maid was sitting in front of the black chicken which she was supposed to pluck.

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

As a lot of Christian preachers lazily take only excerpts of the bible, pluck them out and use them out of context to fabricate a message of a hateful and vengeful god.

These verses pluck on the harp strings of your life, and you will feel as if there is a constant song on your lips and a bounce in your step.

What the plucked string and the dragonfly and the kingfisher do as determined by biology, or physics happens with us when Christ lives in us, Christ living the Christ way in us, in the truth of our lives, playing through our limbs and eyes to the Father.

Similarly, in The Third Jesus (Rider), Chopra attempts to pluck Jesus from his context, presenting him as a spiritual sage for all religious traditions.

Oh, here is one gen I plucked from your babble that is a xtian idea that most would take as being wrong.

That said, the foregoing models should not be viewed as goods to choose among, like plucking one or another brand from the shelf.

My stringy and nearly leafless heirloom tomato plants — the ones I was so excited to cultivate so I could pluck juicy mater orbs straight from the vine and take a big old bite out of their still warm flesh — are as lifeless and lilting as a 6 foot, 95 - pound fashion model prepping for her fall debut on the catwalk.

Loved the switcheroo with the frozen strawberries and I had to laugh as I just plucked and washed a big bag of sweet red, seedless grapes this morning and put them in the freezer for the grandkids who love them frozen, especially during the hot and humid summer months in VA..

As for this Roasted Asparagus with Lemon and Garlic — the asparagus and garlic were both grown locally — and the lemons were plucked from my very own dwarf Meyer lemon tree.

Wait a minute or two, pluck one out and after tossing it from hand to hand (so as to not burn yourself) and taste it to see if it is tender enough for you.

I used to refrain everyone from plucking them as I wanted them to grow bigger, but in that mere pot my dream never came true!

Chiles are either plucked green or allowed to mature before they're dehydrated, sold as pods or ground into powder.

I've always wanted to try a poppy seed roll anyway, so might as well pluck it off the bucket list!!

But I had to tweak it a bit: used almost a full bunch of plucked whole mint leaves, since I mine were spearmint and therefore not as strong as peppermint.

In literature, Shakespeare employed them as a metaphor in «Henry IV, Part I» («Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...») This «sticky» comparison comes from the plant's nature to sting when raw.

In England, they are pickled as follows: The pods are plucked while green, slit down on one side, and, after the seeds are taken out, immersed in salt and water for twenty - four hours; changing the water at the end of the first twelve.