Sentences with phrase «who plucked»

The evening's performances began with Michael Stipe bringing to the stage the gifted young composer and violinist Owen Pallett, who plucked, tapped, and bowed his instrument, played the piano, and also sang.

OST, but now I'm going to remember him as the guy who plucked some mighty fine strings and made me have feelings about this dang country.

In a recent study by economics professors at Emory University, men who spent $ 2,000 to $ 4,000 on an engagement ring were 1.3 times more likely to go divorce court than those who plucked down $ 500 to $ 2,000 on the ring.

Again and again, Klein recounts his own deprived childhood and how it was a public - school teacher who plucked him from a path to mediocrity or worse.

It was Jules Stein, head and founder of MCA, who plucked Richard Shepherd out of Stanford and made him into a real...

Although Yukl and others who plucked out positive signals believe they are real signs of HIV, Douglas Richman of the University of California, San Diego, another collaborator, found nothing and suspects his colleagues have found contaminants.

It was, after all, Bill Clinton who plucked him from Albany two decades ago, brought him to Washington, and ultimately gave him a Cabinet department to run.

Despite London being his preferred choice of place to stay, Adebayor is said to be keen on a reunion with former Spurs Head Coach Tim Sherwood who plucked the Togo international from out of the shadows when he took over after Andre Villas - Boas was sacked in December 2013 and made Adebayor the focal point of the side for the rest of that season.

Carthron places his first manager in this category, a guy who plucked him from Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, and says he didn't put him in a position to win.

Grams» daughter - in - law was the one who plucked the lucky carrot.

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.

Seth Rogen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, voices Frank, a hotdog who inadvertently stumbles upon the truth about «the great beyond» and the «gods» who pluck them from the shelves and wheel them to what they had hitherto believed was a promised land.

Those who pluck for the new 197bhp Polo GTI will be confronted with two choices.

She shares the tale of a little boy who plucks starfish from the beach and then places them back in the ocean so they will not perish in the sun.

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.

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

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.

Translation of Leo the Limpdick's post: «I can't wait to see all of you people who I hate roasting on a spit while I pluck my little lyre in heaven.»

For those of you who claim she must be a dike because she's hirsute, I suggest you check into how much your own grandmothers, mothers, aunts and sisters have to shave and pluck.

You plucked this verse out yet forgot about who the Amalekites are and what they did to Gods children.

The same confusion is shown by those who want to pluck out the tares from the field, or by the disciples when they want to call down fire from heaven on unrepentant villages, or by Judas when he too does what God has said will come to pass.

Among them, however, is the voice of the holy God, who «plucks up and tears down» what we have trusted, who «plants and builds» what we can not even imagine.

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.

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.

The man passes the time watching the crucifixion by casually plucking rabbits from a sack and feeding them to the snapping, vicious predator, who picks them apart without ever finishing one off.

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.

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..

(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.

Her regular experience with coconuts involved trucks toting the fruit into the town where she lived, and others (when traveling near the coast,) involved buying them directly from children who'd plucked them from their own trees.

But I just wanted to let you know that I plucked up the courage to try out this recipe of the» «Half Baked» Fudge Brownie & Cookie Dough Cake» for my twin friends who turn 21 today - and it turned out really well.

One of these is our great defender and key player Laurent Koscielny, who Wenger plucked from relative obscurity and helped to make one of the very best around, so The Mirror has reported our centre back declaring his deep gratitude and the sense that he needs to repay that faith.

Most had been rescued off the street, including one infant girl who had been plucked from a trash can.

Worryingly for Arsenal, the La Liga giants are now being linked with a move for Hector Bellerin, who was plucked for peanuts from the Barca youth team in 2011.

Based on The Guardian «s list of huge - money transfers, a # 60m move would make the 25 - year - old the seventh most expensive footballer ever, sneaking in ahead of Angel Di Maria, who went for # 59.7 m when Manchester United plucked him from Real Madrid in 2014.

I mean think about it: he's basically an Arsenal super-fan plucked from Charlton who gets to play for his team.

In this video, we take a look at some of the stars Mislintat plucked from relative obscurity who were then polished into diamonds — hence his nickname — at Signal Iduna Park, all either achieving legendary status with BVB or turning the club a healthy profit in the transfer market.

Spurs aren't going to find a Dele Alli every summer who can be plucked from the lower leagues and hit the ground running in the Premier League.

The award, that was established in 2005, has plucked out a number of talents who have gone on to showcase their football ability at the very top level.

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.

Alejandro showed great skill and vision as he plucked a high aerial ball to the ground with an unreal first touch and supplemented that with an excellent backheel flick to feed striker Romario Vieira who somehow fluffed his lines when through on goal.

The highly rated forward who was plucked from the famous GBS Academy in Jos has held productive talks with a German Bundesliga club and prefers a switch to Germany ahead of France.

So most babies who are growing up in bad circumstances don't have the luck that the remaining orphans had of being plucked out and now being put in very good circumstances.

And last week, Trump himself plucked the one thorn from the governor's side: Preet Bharara, the hot - dogging U.S. Attorney who indicted a score of the Cuomo's top aides and donors last year in alleged bid - rigging and bribery schemes involving state contracts and services.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors on Thursday spent roughly four hours trying to pluck facts from Jared Abbruzzese, a horse owner and telecom consultant and Republican fund - raiser who struck a $ 20,000 - a-month consulting agreement with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno's lawyer asked a simpler, pointed question.

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.

The hearing amounted to a bipartisan «competition for throwing bouquets,» noted Senator Ron Wyden (D - OR), who joined his colleagues in heaping praise on the job that Majumdar has done since Chu plucked him 2 years ago from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to head the department's new blue - sky research shop.

From the ship, Dave Turner, a technician from the U.K. National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton (NOCS) who pilots Isis from the Ross, used a remote - controlled robotic arm to pluck the crab and pop it into a sampling box.

If you're someone who wants to remove hairs along your bikini line before swimsuit season, pluck just a few follicles each day to spread out the work... and the pain.

One piece of information the public is privy to is the couple's choice of florist: Philippa Craddock, a sustainable designer who will work with locally sourced blooms plucked from nearby parks and gardens.