Sentences with phrase «plucking out»

And I also get the occasional very long ear hair right on the outer edge that I quite enjoy plucking out.

If you opt for a festive faux then you still love the look of a traditional tree but you don't enjoy picking it out in the cold and prefer the practicality of plucking it out of its box every year.

But it did prevent the feathered fiend from plucking out my eyeballs as I finally made my way up the wall, prying open the vent guard to get a look inside.

Not just at the junior levels, but at the mid to senior level as well — possibly plucking them out of the Starbucks they are working in, into the Starbucks they have created.

Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

It is not reasonable for those constructing the BEST dataset to expect people such as me to have to plunge ou hands into the can of worms in the hope of plucking out the live ones used in the study.

The hero Rustam emerges the victor after plucking out the div's liver.

She uses this to draw out and challenge underlying assumptions associated to the Islamic faith, plucking out rituals that straddle religions and behaviours, expounding their inherent possibilities across a multitude of neutral contexts.

Then it just goes back into the miasma of rubbish you're plucking out.»

Much of the hair can often be removed by gently plucking it out with your fingers.

Why is my parrot plucking out his feathers?

The wire might need some additional stripping (plucking out dead hairs by hand) twice a year to keep them from looking scraggly.

Because Vision is seemingly powered entirely by the Mind Stone, plucking it out of Vision's forehead could very well be fatal for him — and for the Avengers, who would lose one of their strongest tanks.

The story is handled deftly, plucking out the most memorable scenes from books and movies and reimagining them in brick.

«This opens the possibility of «defect engineering» in graphene — plucking out atoms in the right places to design the magnetic properties you want,» said Fuhrer.

As many as one in 20 people suffer from body - focused repetitive disorders, engaging in behaviors such as biting their nails or plucking out hair until they damage their appearance or cause themselves pain.

Unfortunately, Beckley was the most skilled at plucking out her own worms.

In the rehearsal space of the Boston band What She Said, Earl Miller lays into his bass guitar, plucking out a funky groove.

By plucking out delicate, live tissue during neurosurgery and then studying the resident cells, researchers have revealed a partial cast of neural characters that give rise to our thoughts, dreams and memories.

Westchester residents are the most heavily taxed in the nation and the relief they demand, and deserve, will not come solely from trimming around the edges of budgets and plucking out one cost or another.

Mislintat deserves plenty of credit from plucking him out of Japanese football and giving him an opportunity in Europe, and it certainly paid off for all parties.

Some of the balls he was plucking out of the air easily were the kind of balls which causes panic attacks for szchenzny.

Whether you're lugging them home from the farmer's market, or plucking them out of your backyard garden, October means it's time for butternut everything.

Everyone sees that what is meant here is not mutilation but renunciation, and that the cutting off of the hand — or of the foot, or the plucking out of the eye — is only a symbol of the resolute renunciation of everything that lessens the preparation for God.

It is the stern saying about plucking out an eye or cutting off a hand that causes one to sin.

But that's not at all what it means, and it seems Evangelicals are plucking out stand - alone phrases from scientific reports and removing them from their context.

Weeks later, Yee realized that he didn't have the equipment he needed to pluck out of Ziskin's blood the rare (perhaps one in 100,000) T cells that could identify the subtle peptide markers on the surface of her cancer cells and attack the disease.

This year, the task got much easier since the U.S. Open began relying on IBM's artificial intelligence tool, Watson, to watch the games and pluck out highlights.

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.

I've plucked out 5 of the most - read headlines in recent history (from this list), to show you why these particular phrases are the cream of the crop.

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.

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

For start - ups, fewer numbers in the equation mean a projected valuation can be plucked out of thin air.

The investor is selling Tropicana, the casino he plucked out of bankruptcy, for $ 1.85 bln.

5:29,30; «If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.»

You plucked them out of time, context and purpose.

But when we open our Bibles and try to make sense of one verse plucked out of context, it doesn't really make sense.

So yesterday, I pulled out the bass and tried to pluck out a tune.

John 10:28 - 29 says that Jesus will never never let someone be plucked out of his hand.

Every tree the Heavenly Father plants, no one can pluck out.

«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.

«If your eye leads you astray, pluck it out and cast it from you.

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].

An arm cut off or an eye plucked out will not grow again.

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.»

You plucked this out of the middle of the explanation of why the fig tree withered.

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.

«Jesus recommends that to avoid sin we cut off our hands and pluck out our eyes.

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.