Sentences with phrase «plucked away»

So much potential arrived with high hopes - Romeu, an elegant midfielder plucked away from Barcelona, Lucas Piazon, a Brazilian likened in style to Kaka, Thorgan Hazard, the brother of Eden.

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

Yet we were complaining about our top players getting plucked away year after year.

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.

So don't hold back, go ahead and pluck away.

The ACC plucks away some key programs (Louisville, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse) and basketball powerhouse Kansas.

I couldn't figure out why anyone would actually want darker eyebrows, because it seemed like everyone I knew was trying to pluck theirs away.

The reader still has those rights, and you can't pluck them away from the copy of the book you sell.

We know another Halo is in development, and that Rare continues to pluck away at Sea of Thieves.

I'm still plucking away at the third stage, unable to string it all together because the jumps are incredibly precise.

The viewer sees the celebrants and landscapes through a scrim of chained - link fencing and cinder blocks, imagery super-imposed on the images by way of spray - paint and picotage, the artist's signature method of faceted plucking away of a photograph's surface.

I could have said «is not simply a typist» but I didn't even want to put simply because the role of a resume writer is not to pluck away at a keyboard... it is to create and craft a marketing tool for your job search.

Not exact matches

moon, moon, crazy moon natural moon torn apart and snoozing moon; lovely moon, romantic moon poor poor moon the romance plucked out of its drab surface; moon moon going wild moon moon running away from the earth --

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance... a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away [Eccles.

According to the Somadeva (a Buddhist holy book), a Buddhist ascetic's eye once offended him, so he plucked it out and cast it away.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ¶ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

If they do not simply go away crestfallen, the moment of grace fading in their hearts, they might pluck up the courage to enquire of the sacristan or at the presbytery door.

Some had their hats violently plucked off and thrown away, so that they quite lost them.

The larger clusters tend to rise to the top of the bag, so those got plucked out right away.

They skin and paunch all sorts of quadrupeds; they draw and pluck their fowl; but their fish they dress with their scales on, without gutting; but in eating they leave the scales, entrails and bones to be thrown away.

Instead, he went with a newfound spread attack, one that had given him fits at Florida, and plucked Leach away from head coach Hal Mumme.

As Garcia was making his swing, the gallery surrounding Woods, some 50 yards away and in the trees, cheered loudly when their man plucked a club from his bag, signaling his intent to go for the green.

Plucked from the famous Jos based Gee - Lec Football Academy, he made his debut in the Nigeria Professional Football League at the age of 17, and he was details away from joining Polish side Legia Warsaw one year ago.

Plucked off the top of an apartment building, Gerry and his family are whisked away to a military ship in the middle of the ocean where the UN employee is given two options.

Synopsis: A remake of the 1951 sci - fi classic of the same name, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL follows astrobiologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) as she is unceremoniously plucked from her everyday life with her stepson (Jaden Smith), and whisked away to consult the government on a top - secret matter.

In an energetic, «Be Our Guest» - ish production number, the supermarket food sings in praise of the «gods» who will bring them to the «great beyond» — that is, the humans who will pluck them off the shelves, take them away from the supermarket and, unbeknownst to these trusting foodstuffs, consume them with abandon.

«We should have done this years ago,» says Drew to his dad's earthly remains, wiping away a brave tear, but for as machine - calibrated as the scene is to pluck at the heartstrings, there isn't — as there isn't at any moment in this film — a hint of authenticity to the sentiment.

He plucked the comic's go - to character, the awkward man - child with anger issues, out of his rarefied Happy Madison atmosphere and plopped him down in the real world, where his social snafus and fits of rage caused everyone else to back away, slowly.

It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district.

«Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel...» Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial - food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.

This is the perfect chance to journey on to the fantastical world of Gransys in search of the dragon who very literally plucks your heart from your chest and flies away.

Subsequent releases in Super Mario All - Stars and Super Mario Advance would not only include the bow, but in the latter game, also allow the player to pluck it off her head and toss it away.

Because the nature of the adventure requires pluck heroes to have several items on hand at a moments notice, for them to all be a simple tap away eases the tedium of the menu slog.

One particular criticism made of the GISTemp method is that «they use temporatures from 1200 km away» usually spoken with a tome of incredulity and some suggestion that this number was plucked out of thin air.

Itâ $ ™ s perfectly wonderful to have goals, and plenty of vision, and the pluck to create something beautiful and dear on this spinning ball, but I was pining away so hard that it seemed like wrestling a big «ol lion every day.