Sentences with phrase «something plucked»

It looks like something plucked straight from the pages of Country Living or BHG, but with even more charm and character.

Valletta, the tiny nation's capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site, feels like something plucked straight from Westeros.

This bride's blue - tinted wedding dress looks like something plucked out of the closet of a mermaid and I can't stop swooning.

It looks like something plucked straight out of Ariel's actual treasure trove.

Not exact matches

I feel more freedom to create and experiment when I've plucked something out of my backyard and not paid $ 5.00 a pound for it at the grocery store.

Taking a leaf out of Bayern's book, Dortmund have also looked to cannibalise the Bundesliga in the transfer market — something which is no new development for the club, but seems to have been approached more aggressively this year, with Philipp, Jeremy Toljan, Ömer Toprak and Mahmoud Dahoud all being plucked from rivals to bolster Bosz's options.

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.»

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.

Indeed, the intelligence now emerging is of government ministers casting around rather desperately in April for something to say at Rio and plucking Darwin, as it were, from the void.

My blog was my new years resolution, I bought the domain name a YEAR ago and only plucked up the courage to actually do something with it in January.

Watching him pluck the petals off a yellow rose and devour its crunchy interior is something you won't soon forget.

The ticking clock, the inexorableness of it, the irony of plans - conversations about the Super Bowl when we know he'll be gone before it happens, the sight of an Obama poster when we know he won't be alive for the inaugural - all these pluck at something primal within us.

But none of the headaches and compromises of that picture's embattled production history were enough to quell the warmth and pluck of Yelchin's performance as Cage's loyal protégé, Milton, in which the actor did something with the lower register of his voice that I'd never heard before: Raspy and loquacious, he suddenly seemed a very old man in a very young body, an agency functionary imbued with a surfeit of soul.

«Rango» is a mélange of influences, but it's saying something that Verbinski could reference «Apocalypse Now» (complete with a banjo - plucking rendition of «Ride of the Valkyrie» by Hans Zimmer) and «Deliverance» (or maybe it's «Texas Chainsaw Massacre «-RRB- during a sequence that also features Johnny Depp, as a conflicted chameleon, flying through the air while wearing a dress.

It has a sharper - looking exterior, an interior that looks like it was plucked from something far more expensive, a bit better fuel efficiency, and perhaps most important of all, a manual transmission option.

They'd met in the health store, he holding a jar of prune extract plucked in a hurry from the shelf, she examining something in a bottle.

Most of the times the value is either traditional or just plucked out of the air or to match the commemorative theme under which it's released... say 100 years of something would have a value of 100 on the coin.

When I was a child, there was a program where one of the characters could «pluck his magic twanger» and make something magical happen.

«Sometimes macaws will pluck out their feathers if something isn't right,» Hill says.

My fingers plucked the overdue strings and I wanted to really mean something.

But there is something to gain in sitting in silence on a bare floor and using the low - cycle hum around you to pluck the signal from among scattered thoughts.

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.