Sentences with phrase «like plucking»

Bathroom mirrors often have lights incorporated to aid with your skincare routine and tasks like plucking and shaving, and bedrooms are most likely where you'd find a use for a full - length mirror.

His lab's «empirical dynamic modeling» techniques use time - series data to look at the invisible ways these complicated systems are connected: like plucking one string out of a jumbled network and seeing which other strings echo back.

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

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When it tunnels, it effectively disappears, causing that electrical field to wobble like a plucked string, Turin explains.

I might look like a plucked chicken in a harness, waving my arms and staring at the floor, but from where I sit, I'm an eagle soaring in the sky.

I'm allergic to gluten and I'm also even really allergic to gluten free oats (my face ends up looking like plucked chicken skin for months after a little consumption).

But Gerwig's god - like pluck makes it impossible for this story to be too much of a downer.

But upon closer inspection, the vertical stripes, or «zips,» as Newman called them, which he created with the help of masking tape, bleed color from side to side, as a cross would if it were vibrating like a plucked guitar string.

Not exact matches

The city, which famously inspired J.K. Rowling to start writing about the Boy Who Lived, is now home to an apartment that looks like it was plucked straight out of Hogwarts.

Where branding pluck like this was once confined to incubators and Kickstarter campaigns, success stories like Canada's Frank & Oak, Australia's Bellroy and American brands like Warby Parker, Harry's and even Tesla are now giving their mainstream competitors some heartburn.

That's what it would have been like if two Houston supermarket owners had popularized their vision of outfitting grocery stores with a track that customers would push their baskets along while plucking items from the shelves.

Companies are plucking ideas straight from shows like The Apprentice and Shark Tank to pick the best job candidates, train workers, and build camaraderie.

They're not just going to pluck you out of obscurity like Apple sometimes does in the app store.

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.

The Servant / Messiah is not only the Victim, who «never said a mumblin» word,» giving his back to those who strike him and his cheeks to those who pluck out his beard, led like a lamb to the slaughter; he is also the Victor in a life - and - death battle.

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.

You know the one after the time where it was in the tree tempting Eve, so I guess when it tempted Eve it looked more like a Lizard, but then afterward God plucked it's limbs off for punishment along with giving women birth pains.

My mom always taught me to leave my brows alone — I never plucked them terribly thin like a lot of my friends did and I'm so thankful.

I liked the idea of adding just a splash of cream, and I had a brand new herb garden waiting to be plucked for cooking, so I headed on into the unchartered waters and began.

It's like this recipe was plucked out of my many, many food dreams.

This is a citrus cookie that tastes like you climbed up a tree and plucked a cookie off the branch.

These apples, even though shipped to me from Washington, tasted like they'd just been plucked from the tree.

Using my fingers, I plucked them up like fur balls and pretended I was eating cotton candy.

Nothing says summer like the snap of a freshly plucked green bean.

Jim Pluck U BBQ A: Hi Jim, I try to cook my chicken at a higher smoker temp, like around 300 °F.

There will be chicken — but there will also be ways to make it taste like you didn't just pluck it out from underneath a supermarket heat lamp.

Come winter, when the leaves have fallen, the fruit continues to cling to the barren branches, dangling like forgotten Christmas ornaments, ripe for plucking.

I love Drapes, but I feel like this organization, should they part ways with Kenny, should not pluck their next GM from the Kenny - Tree.

It was almost as old as his brick house, which was built around 1810, and like other aged things the tree always appeared to be a symbol of pluck and order to him.

Seemed like a tremendous hire when they plucked her from Duquesne.

Having been plucked from the Barcelona youth setup like Cesc Fabregas all those years ago, Arsenal fans have always harboured the fear that he will want to return to his homeland in the future, but Hector himself has again made it clear that he intends to be a Gunner for the whole of his career.

I think you could do a lot worse than to pluck somebody from the Jim Harbaugh coaching tree like Jedd Fisch or even his current OC Tim Drevno.

Yeah, lets not heap praise until its announced... You know what it's like being an Arsenal fan... How many times have we been so close, and then a player gets plucked from under our noses... So frustrating!

To pluck just one example, a broadsheet journalist recently chided Aston Villa fans for having the temerity to object to the appointment of Alex McLeish, pointing out that the Second City rivalry wasn't a proper rivalry, like that sexy Liverpool - Manchester United one.

Like Napoli, Roma had their premier star plucked away by Juventus in Miralem Pjanic, and missed out on a few targets...

Wayne Rooney was so bad against Watford last weekend, he looked like someone who had been plucked from the crowd, plopped onto the pitch and asked to run the midfield.

«After the event finished, I waited a while before plucking up the courage to message Anna, asking if she liked the print and if she'd kindly post about it, explaining how much I'd value her support.

Like covering the clutch of eggs with feathers to protect them while she takes one of her brief breaks.And the «brood patch» of down that she plucked from her own belly to keep the eggs warmer (through direct contact with her skin).

Might we add to my list of 50 things I like to do or pluck a few suggestions from there?

Instead of letting your partner pluck your crying or smelly baby from your arms, try saying something like, «I think I can handle things» or «That's okay, I really need the practice.»

For me, it's always like some sort of divine stylist plucked George Bernard Shaw, that Irish terrier of a playwright, out of London's Fitzroy Square and dropped him down in Wicker Park, Logan Square or Pilsen.

Mom was glad once we looked a bit more like a chicken and a bit less like a Cornish game hen or a plucked pigeon.

Cuomo has recruited a number of legislators friendly to him in the Assembly, plucking lawmakers like Karim Camara or Sam Roberts to join his administration.

Rather than appealing to God or blind luck, some argue that our existence sets parameters that reliably pluck universes like ours from the bottomless grab - bag of the multiverse.

In an MRI machine, a powerful magnetic field causes protons in the body to line up like violin strings under tension, then a pulse of energy plucks those «strings,» making them hum.

If one or more of these variables experiences a change, the rest of the system follows suit — just like when a violin string is plucked, the force of the plucking affects the time it takes for the string to stop vibrating.

-- Rybczynski plucked a fragment from the dirt that looked like either bone or mummified wood.

And the shared map implies that genes for important characteristics, such as disease resistance, photoperiodism, drought tolerance, storage proteins and the like, can be plucked direct from one genome and applied in another.

Organlike tissue bits can be generated from pluripotent stem cells that are either plucked from embryos or created by taking a person's adult skin or blood cells and chemically inducing them to revert to an embryonic - like state.