Sentences with phrase «plucked with»

In this original, the duel is between a four string banjo played with a pick (an instrument and technique that has disappeared) and a five string banjo, plucked with fingers, a relatively subtle point of argument.

Be carful not to confuse this with eyelashes that are just growing astray, these can be plucked with tweezers (you may prefer your vet to do this).

Hairs from affected areas are plucked with a sterile hemostat and placed on a special fungal culture medium.

It is plucked with a false fingernail on the right ring finger and is known as «the instrument of the heart» because the open gourd is held close to the musician's heart.

We plucked with a 3 - man attack for this week, led by Almeria forward, on - loan from Liverpool, Suso Fernandez.

Erving hit just two more free throws to finish with 31 points, but in this game his fury was felt on the boards, where he swiped 19 rebounds, many plucked with four fingers of a single hand.

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.

If you have rogue hairs, quickly pluck them with a pair of tweezers.

Not exact matches

He says HR managers have realized that plucking hires from different industries — say, a candidate of color with experience in finance, but not technology, per se — has been surprisingly successful.

There's so much in this book that for the quote, I just plucked out one that's helped me in my interactions with colleagues and family members.

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.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

Five years ago in an old Massachusetts mill room 12 workers scurried about with plastic bags, plucking electrical components from shelves.

So true audaciousness comes about with just those people who have the pluck and the courage to say, «Screw it; let's do it.»

With «revenue plucked from the air,» in the words of Wilgus, the New York Central transformed its unsightly rail yard — an urban eyesore — into a commercial and residential district that contemporaries called Terminal City.

One of them is John Carey, who was a Missouri State University student when Mozilla plucked him out of the Midwest and set him up with a free apartment nearby, along with the assignment to make a video of the behind - the - scenes work to prepare the next major version of Firefox.

In that vein, once a quarter, Daniel Lubetzky, the founder and CEO of KIND Snacks, sits down with new hires and asks them to tell funny, personal stories, from which he plucks a common theme that becomes the identity for that «class.»

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

The government has tried to pluck the nuisance with stricter rules, you also should be well - informed before jumping on the binary bandwagon.

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.

Moreover, with the drive for consolidation in the healthcare sector, biotech stocks are ripe for the plucking among those seeking to make major moves in the merger and acquisition market.

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

From the haunting vocal distortions on «Hide and Seek» to the mbira (akin to a thumb piano with metal keys attached to a wooden board) plucking on «Goodnight and Go» to the CDs thrown at a carpet tube on «Closing In,» Heap pulls you directly into her studio, inviting you into her colorful imagination.

Mehta said he admired Bell's pluck and sympathized with his plight.

My observation is that those that pluck the petal of capricious gods, collapse into bargaining with the gods, then begging and then helplessness.

«And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire» (Matt.

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.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched [Mark 9:43 - 48].

If you were suddenly plucked from your life and sent back in time to live with people in Indonesia about 15,000 years ago (or even Ethiopia 150,000 years ago), you would be able to figure out what is going on.

The law allowed going through a grainfield and plucking a few ears by hand on the way, but some of the Pharisees found fault with the disciples for doing this on the Sabbath.

After this long section of matter found nowhere else or shared only with Luke, Matthew rejoins Mark with the story of the disciples plucking grain on the Sabbath (Mk 2:23 - 28; Mt 12:1 - 8; Lk 6:1 - 5).

McCarthy plucks people from life and wheels them out in her novels, with a full autopsy report.

To go with the story of Genesis, the ability to pluck the apple off the tree and realize that we're utterly naked.

The Lord said, «If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hellfire.»

Always tend to the friends who God has encircled you with, and relentlessly pluck the weeds that harden your heart and cause you to forget those who are real.

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.

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.

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.

«Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never - sear, I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.»

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.

In this expression there is a parallel and a contrast with the call of the prophet Jeremiah, who was set «over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant» (Jer.

After you cook your chicken (or pluck all the meat off a rotisserie), plop into the bowl of your standmixer, fitted with the paddle, and stir on low.

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..

I've spent the last month filling my fridge with seasonal produce, plucking fresh berries from my adopted garden and stretching myself to try new things.

Some are used whole, but with others you can just pluck the petals.

(1.5 hours) Pick up the turkey that I ordered thanks to the aforementioned post-it note (30 minutes) Wednesday Evening: Head to «stuffing night» with Brittani's family (3 hours) Wednesday Night: Brine Turkey (1 hour) Thursday Morning: Start cooking and continue cooking all whilst making an insane mess and chasing off my father who will inevitably be trying to pluck turkey skin from a piping hot bird.

We would pluck flowers and make garlands, paint and decorate our cows and spend hours giggling & making large patterns of «Rangoli» with natural colours outside our house.»

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.

Smoky heat does amazing things to just about anything you can pull from the ground or pluck from a vine (with the obvious advantage of not heating up the kitchen in the steamy days of August).

We'd pick a few, hang them to dry for a few weeks and then pluck the fronds and mix them in with kosher salt.