Plucks it out of the sky, like a delicious fruit.
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Alex Robert Ross plucks out the stars to make midnight trimmings.
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Tergesen simply laughs and plucks the bag out of his hand.
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Nebula reaches straight into the treacherous lasers and plucks out the Orb.
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She plucks a particularly pungent one and pops it in her mouth.
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Plucks of electric guitar work that instrument for all its echoey melancholy.
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She approaches a console and plucks out what looks like a marble.
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Kim plucks my brows, but really barely, and she also tints them.
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He spies one, raises his eyebrows, and plucks it out of the pile.
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Restrained and short, it ends quietly, with some demure plucks in the strings.
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"The Banker" plucks an obscure figure out of history to very mixed effect.
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The next, she spins around and plucks a few donuts from the shelves.
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Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN)The farmer plucks a cannabis flower from a long stalk.
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Anna, her superior, is right behind her, and neatly plucks out the broken bit.
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He gently plucks the fruit, constantly wiping off the sticky sap from his palms.
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Like Dada iconoclast Francis Picabia, Williams plucks motifs from any and all style periods.
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She's particularly taken with the radishes, fussing over every one she plucks from the ground.
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During the Schenectady schmooze-fest, he plucks himself with a rubber band to remain alert.
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This individual plucks Bandit out of the rapids, and then is pulled back to safety.
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Sometimes Brandee Younger's plucks on the harp led Mr. McCraven into a buoyant, driving beat.
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An illuminated window high off the ground excites the gaze and plucks at the imagination.
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He plucks a wrapped sapling, twig-thin but crowned with a spray of healthy, spiky leaves.
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"This is so sexy," Harutaka Kishi coos as he plucks fresh radishes from the MUNCHIES garden.
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The only predictable element is that the raffle favours the team that plucks the first ticket.
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He plucks at the strings, traditionally made of dehydrated goat guts, a smile on his face.
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That of the harpsichord plucks the strings; notes pierce the ear more than they stroke it.
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Since Kaga plucks all his clues from minor background details, their trivial nature is itself important.
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Who's Most Likely To Get ThemAnyone who waxes, shaves, or plucks the area can develop vaginal acne.
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Mr. Revis plucks some tinny notes around the bridge of his bass then digs into a solo.
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We can't figure out what's more menacing: the guitar plucks on "Ragrets" or Baby Rose's haunting voice.
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Unlike Lamborghini's latest Huracán, which plucks heartstrings at first sight, the all-electric Rimac feels anonymous and unexciting.
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Guided gently along by steady guitar plucks, Mayberry's subdued vocals float among a thick fog of moody atmospherics.
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Here, Roberts plucks the Erin Brockovich chord; she is steely and immovable in the face of corporate wrongdoing.
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But Ms. Bennett has a voice that leans over the bar and plucks a button off your shirt.
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Mr. Barron, 78, creates art out of trash that he plucks from the streets of New York City.
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Mr. Clapton offered husky swipes across the strings and clacking single-note plucks, enacting both elegance and exertion.
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Back in the kitchen, Ben washes and dries the herbs, then plucks the ends and roots off the scallions.
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Finally, Lee plucks out a stone and places it on the board, just above the black one Huang played.
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Amid an on-stage meltdown, she plucks a math teacher (Owen Wilson) from the crowd and marries him instead.
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His friends mourn, his partner Rocket plucks a twig from the wreckage, and regrows Groot into a dancing sprout.
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The passenger reaches down and plucks the boy from the street, wedging the boy between himself and the driver.
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He gives the robber the entire till, which the man ignores after he plucks one last bill from it.
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A scalpel reaches into the frame and quite literally plucks a little acrylic baby from beneath the woman's gown.
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Law and Justice plucks popular policies from all over the political spectrum and stirs them into a nationalist stew.
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She hastily plucks white petals from a bush in her garden and hands me a basket filled with them.
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As the action begins, the Monahan family's prodigal son plucks Ned from the back of a parked Mercedes sedan.
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The A.I. sorter plucks recyclable materials from a conveyor belt of assorted trash and deposits them into corresponding piles.
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Ms. Wu, calm and unshowy, casts a quiet spell as she gracefully plucks the strings of her lutelike instrument.
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He plucks one of the pale buds from its stem, crushes it between his fingers, and hands it to me.
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"Here she is, a lovely lady," says Bekvalac, as she plucks out one of her favourite people from the shelf.
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But DiMola sees his career as more than solely cleanup, as he plucks precious and ordinary objects from the waste.
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Like when the Captain plucks turnips from the ground to lob at enemies, and they yield with a satisfying pop.
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It's a ruefully, comically sentimental piece that plucks a fleeting connective poetry in the seeming randomness of what we hoard.
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But somehow the golden sweeper plucks luciferase intact from its own gut, a team led by Dr. Bessho-Uehara found.
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Scott plucks a block from the bottom of a structure Minaj is building, causing it to fall and angering Minaj.
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In one sequence, Adi sits with one of them as he plucks away at several tunes on an electronic piano.
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It plucks people and moments from obscurity, hurls them into the mainstream, and tugs incessantly until they grow threadbare and exhausting.
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Miranda Cuckson played the original version of "Anthèmes," for violin solo, with a light, bouncing touch, dotted with gleefully savage plucks.
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Like so many fan-fiction stories, Elvis & Nixon tries to have a Big Feels moment where it plucks at the heartstrings.
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When Walker Loats, bored inmate number 1439, plucks it glistening from her spoon, she doesn't realize that she's found some company.
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She plucks an empty water bottle off the ground for me to hold so I can feel the bass in my fingertips.
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Earlier this year, it launched Wattpad Books, a dedicated book imprint that plucks the best works out to publish as print editions.
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She walks up to multiple customers, plucks products out of their hands, and puts her preferred item for them in its place.
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The parasite compels the snail to ascend towards the sunlight, where it becomes lunch for a bird who plucks out its eyes.
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Not when I'm during interviews [he plucks at his jacket, which is indeed quite colorful] this jacket is hardly invisible, isn't it?
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Baird, on an electric guitar, plucks muddy, overdriven chords, and Lattimore follows along at first before adding more layers of syncopated harp.
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The song captures what makes Afrobeats such a compelling sound, with hip-swiveling rhythms balanced by succulent guitar plucks and breezy melodies.
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Lattimore leads for the first half of the song "Between Two Worlds," her gentle, tentative plucks searching for something resolute and calm.
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The company has developed a robotic berry picker that identifies ripe strawberries and plucks them off the plants with a gentle grip.
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To fill out the storyboard, he plucks images from around the web, including Google Maps, and then animators flesh out his vision.
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This week, Sophie takes on glamour and artificiality, ASAP Rocky resurrects Moby's "Porcelain" and Sudan Archives plucks out a self-empowerment anthem.
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One which CEO, Founder and Chairman Jeff Lawson plucks out in a conversation with "Life Hacks Live " is: being adaptable to change.
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But when he idly plucks art supplies from his backpack, he and his granddad discover a shared enthusiasm for drawing action figures.
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She wields a lot of influence in the industry, and has a knack for making stars out of faces she plucks from obscurity.
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With the needle of her prose, she plucks at the fabric of the university, exposing the reactionary impulses that run through American life.
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The Treasury Offset Program not only plucks dollars from income tax refunds, it also siphons off cash from Social Security to cover delinquencies.
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It plucks two figures from history and imagines them as they once were, when they were people instead of monuments to American exceptionalism.
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On one side, the sturdy farmer from somewhere in Latin America or Africa plucks red coffee cherries against a tapestry of emerald plants.
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Judge John Hodgman Alexis writes: My boyfriend, Robert, has prodigious eyebrows and plucks stray eyebrow hairs out with his fingernails, even in public.
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I'm surprised when she stoops and plucks a broad, green leaf, pops it in her mouth, and motions that I do the same.
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For each question, she closed her eyes, and then the fingers of her right hand began to twitch, a progression of plucks and jerks.
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They go from green to yellow to increasingly brown, until one brave soul plucks one of them off their bunch and peels it open.
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We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time, some a little sooner, some a little later.
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This pope is a controversial one, and this portrait plucks him out of the context of debated opinions to let him speak without argument.
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We follow Aisholpan through the stages of preparation, as she plucks an eaglet from a mountainside nest and teaches it to follow her directions.
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Looped violin riffs interlock with layers of string plucks and wood-tapping percussion as she delivers light-touch, stream-of-consciousness R&B koans.
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Goose came from N.Y.C.-based Muddy Paws Rescue, a non-profit, no-kill organization that plucks animals from intake shelters and finds them new homes.
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Markowicz plucks the above, one-word descriptors liberals used in 2012 because from the vantage point of today, they fit Trump much better than Romney.
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Instead of just blowing them out in one go, he plucks them off the cake and proceeds to blow them out individually, one by one.
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And seeing as Vision only exists because of the Mind Stone, it seems plausible he'll bite it when Thanos plucks it out of his head.
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In her new solo "Bouquet," Valencia plucks ideas, images and items from different parts of her life and bundles them together in an eclectic arrangement.
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Despite the availability of free attractions such as Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge, New York plucks nearly $226 a day out of visitor wallets.
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At the end of that movie, he's kind of going through all of the scenarios, and he plucks out the one where the Avengers win.
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Daphne's frowzy neighbor, Geneva Wisenkorn, plucks the discarded Monadnockian (a perfectly normal yearbook name in New England) from the recycling in their Hell's Kitchen building.
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The digital sounds were a scattered, tinkling miscellany: cymbals, synthesizer tones and plucks on the samisen (a three-stringed Japanese instrument loosely resembling a banjo).
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The two play off each other with a lovely, sincere sense of camaraderie that plucks at the heartstrings as effectively as the music they produce together.
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In a taupe-walled exam room at the Women's Community Clinic in San Francisco, lead clinician Lisa Mihaly plucks a small laminated card from a cabinet.
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Or, if you're just in it for the goo, you can watch with sound off as Dr. Lee snips, plucks, and deflates these pockets of pus.
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He plucks some hair out of her head so he can run a paternity test and it later turns out that ... he is NOT the father!
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As she snips bronze fennel and plucks violets, Berens tells us about Granor Farm in Three Oaks, Michigan, where she runs a produce-focused dining program.
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He plucks candidates from relative obscurity and instantly turns them into household names in their districts or states — with a tweet, a rally or an endorsement.
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There's text here — at one point luminous plucks punctuate the low buzz of voices speaking, perhaps over radios — but it's muffled to the point of unintelligibility.
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Yet two thousand idiots per show yelp every time he opens his mouth, plucks a guitar string, or shakes his pelvis like any striptease babe in town.
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Between the #MeToo movement and a president who plucks babies away from their parents, it's hard to think of men in contemporary public life who inspire admiration.
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She notices a sprout from a radish that was going to seed, plucks a small green pod off of the stalk, and tells us to try it.
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In place of the sinister, trap-tinged hip-hop that has dominated the city's musical narrative is a sound that plucks from more diverse and international influences.
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Sophie is first his captive — he plucks her from the orphanage after she spies him sneaking through the nighttime London streets — and then his ward and pal.
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For example, Cupid plucks Psyche from the fires of hell intimated by the orange undersides of the fluffy little clouds that also imply another kind of heat.
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But her materials sound far more ancient: Violin lines that mix African fiddle techniques with percussive taps and plucks, and bits of modal melody stacked into songs.
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Andrés and Mauricio have their own sample pack on Splice, with hundreds of sounds including reggaeton drum loops, salsa-inspired horns, and tropical pop-inspired synth plucks.
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Through delay pedals and atmospheric effects, his lone plucks echo and hang in the air, merging with Thomas Morgan's tawny acoustic bass and Joey Baron's lightly ricocheting cymbals.
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I see nothing but grass, but she bends to one knee and plucks a delicate weed with rainwater cluster in the center of its leaves like crystal orbs.
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This makes sense when you hear a song like "Savannah," which has the kind of acoustic guitar plucks and steady rhythms of what you'd listen to when winding down.
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Having narrated us into a moral and emotional box canyon, Keret then plucks himself out with a glibness that is beneath his talents as a writer and a humanist.
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There are dozens of little touches and design ideas that Nioh plucks from FromSoftware's Souls series, and in many cases, developer Team Ninja put their own spin on it.
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Each gray arm ends in a suction-cup-tipped finger that makes a high-pitched whine as it plucks items such as antiperspirant or hand lotion from crowded boxes.
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But the truth of the matter is simpler than that: Dolittle is a real movie where Robert Downey Jr. plucks a set of bagpipes out of a dragon's butt.
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Is there a "finishing touches" department that moisturizes the skin, plucks the eyebrows, curls the hair, sweeps on eyeliner, spritzes on fragrance, and fixes lipstick — all before their loops begin?
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But the volume of their screech evolved from their diet, he said: The bellbird plucks and eats whole fruit and spends all day digesting it, then spitting out the seeds.
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Beginning, like Ms. Thorvaldsdottir's piece, with ethereality, Fjola Evans's lulling new "NOTT" unfolded gently, marked by little mandolin plucks and a vocal part sung with floating ease by Lucy Dhegrae.
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Bernard straps into that strange metal rack, which slices his skull open, plucks out his own control unit, and dumps his consciousness into the Cradle so he can investigate firsthand.
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ARGOBA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with a spear and undeterred by the intense sunlight, Tarekegn Kareto meticulously plucks weeds in his maize field in Argoba village, in southern Ethiopia.
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In case the knowledge isn't that common, however, especially among younger viewers, the words "Top Secret—Sensitive" are visible on the files that Ellsberg plucks from a drawer one night.
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Their compelling hybrid of black, thrash, and death metal plucks the juiciest elements of each, leaning heavily on ghoulish Second Wave black metal melodies and punctuated by a dirty DIY snarl.
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If you've followed the creature-collecting games from the original Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS, this GIF, embedded below, will pluck your heart strings like Meowth plucks an electric guitar.
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One of the most interesting ideas he plucks from academic journals is that climate change is morphing away from narrative and becoming a metanarrative, as Modernism was in the twentieth century.
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He plucks the fez from the animal's head and flogs him with it until, with a prolonged stretch that seems to solidify the bear's balance rather than upset it, he rises.
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If you want to hear the intricate detail of tweeting birds in a Japanese garden as a heartbroken ronin mournfully plucks the strings of a lute, you're probably better off looking elsewhere.
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Early on, when Hamnet plucks someone from the audience to do a bit of "Hamlet" with him, it might be a disaster: child actor, random adult reading the role of Hamlet's father.
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The bass drum ticks while the snare drum tocks, each matching the precision of a drum computer; Albert Hammond Jr's rhythm guitar plucks along a hair behind them, contrasting precision against cool.
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Generally, Hooper pulls away from loony-tunes excess, tries for sexy rather than freaky, and plucks at heartstrings, a reflex that pulls the story into mawkishness, particularly when he cuts to Victoria.
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A pantomimed one-minute charmer, it shows a young woman who, with a smile and a bosom wreathed in flowers, plucks squalling naked babies from a cabbage patch constructed out of wood.
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At the center is the titular hero, a nondescript object when first introduced by the narrator and aspiring mother Rachel, who plucks him off the fur of the gigantic flying bear Mord.
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Plucks of banjo, strings, and vocal harmonies from Medicine Bow add an Americana flavor and infuse the music with just as much mystery as the lush woods that the songs are inspired by.
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The waves created by these plucks travel up through the field lines and into the planet, where they emit bursts of radio emissions that come and go as the moon rotates around Jupiter.
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The best news about "Florence Foster Jenkins" is that, just when admirers of Hugh Grant were asking if the poor guy would ever get a role of any ripeness, he plucks a peach.
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Their general manager, Sean Marks, a former San Antonio Spurs assistant and executive, has picked up talented role players much as a fishmonger sorts through a barrel and plucks out tasty sea bass.
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Here is where a book reaches the bottom of the narrative ladder that, as in Black Beauty, describes life's trajectory ever downward, unless, at the end sudden redemption plucks the unfortunate from final doom.
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This is the third remake of the movie, the story of the big male star who plucks the little woman from obscurity and watches her celebrity and relevance rise above his, to tragic consequences.
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The anecdote, though minor, plucks a resonant strain of coverage and criticism of Ivanka, a White House senior aide, who has been viewed with some suspicion in conservative circles given her New York City roots.
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Throughout Drunken Angel, a street guitarist plucks away at his instrument beneath a broken archway at night, creating a refrain for this socially-conscious noir (his song is reminiscent of a leisurely, brooding Piazzola tune).
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It's the breezy kind of infectious pop that hooked fans in the first place, with big, watery splashes of reverb, tropical guitar plucks, and a dash of '1443s production vibes thrown in for good measure.
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"A master of order, my husband was," she writes, and then plucks out a hammer, some pliers, a yardstick and some screwdrivers, giving away the rest of his snickarbod to her children and their friends.
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But here are some new details I can confirm: there is a baby called BB, a character named Mama who plucks ghost babies out of the air, and you can make Norman Reedus' character urinate.
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Later on, as she bows the instrument luxuriously in its middle range, typically alternating between two notes at a time, MacKay dances around the fretboard, sometimes using single plucks and sometimes playing with a slide.
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The tall kid reverses direction in a blink, sticks out an impossibly long, Durant-like arm, plucks the pass out of the air and in four long strides dribbles downcourt and goes airborne and whap!
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Google Photos will even form gauzy retrospective mental associations for you: The artificially intelligent software plunges straight into your photo library, plucks out faces and related events, and automatically generates poignant little videos—synthetic episodic memories.
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I would definitely not spend $160 on these, especially when there's roughly a 90 percent chance you will lose one of them, or when, as I mentioned before, a crazy person plucks them from your head.
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A singing cellist and an experimentalist of patient, farsighted demeanor, Ms. Wong leaves all options on the table: Most of the time, she plays the instrument in slow swipes and resonant plucks, resisting pattern or repetition.
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"Heidenröslein," with its parable of seduction and abandonment—a boy plucks a rose, which pricks him with the thorn of regret—grew out of Goethe's guilt over what he knew to be his own bad conduct.
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Out of the hundreds of potential hours you can pour into the game, most of it will be spent alone, with no companions except Link's mute horses and the beautifully minimalist music that plucks along the way.
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"Sunday Morning," a setting of an eight-part Wallace Stevens poem, begins with sunrise ethereality — held high notes in the strings and light plucks of a harp — and remains raptly restrained even as it condenses and blooms.
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And that is precisely by design: The Favourite is not a movie about history, but a movie that plucks some shadowy figures out of history and it uses them to stage a devilish comedy of power struggles.
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Mr. Hindi offers musical accompaniment — at one point, he plucks an amplified wire running from the ceiling to an LP on the floor to produce an ominous drone — and sumptuous floral curtains dazzle as both backdrops and costumes.
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In the video above, Brown explains how underneath Breath of the Wild's visceral piano plinks and violin plucks is a very nuanced orchestration that echoes Zelda games of the past without completely lifting classic theme songs or tunes.
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"I'm in my home in Tyler County, and we could not get out unless a helicopter plucks me out or I get my boat and launch it," the Texas Republican told CNN by phone early in the day.
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It plucks the slipcovers off the autobiographical material that Miller worked over for so much of his career — what sons owe to fathers, what brothers owe to each other, what the world owes to men of reasonable integrity.
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"We won't stop to defend human life at sea," said Sea Watch, which always brings any migrants it plucks from the Mediterranean to European ports — mostly Italian — arguing that war-racked Libya is too dangerous for asylum seekers.
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Drenched in autotune and accompanied by melancholy keyboard plucks, Vann raps about feeling out of place with his childhood white friends, and McLennon solemnly narrates his conflicts with mental health ("Shit was never sunny, wrists were sort of bloody").
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With hazy harmonics, crunchy rolled chords and metallic plucks, the series of short movements and interludes conjures rehearsal conversations in which someone offers an idea or a demonstration of how a passage should be played, and the rest respond.
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This is the suit that follows Gordon throughout the games, always out of reach, and who plucks him out of danger at the end of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, putting him on ice until he's useful again.
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Crafts's wordless manifesto packs a lot of emotion into six minutes: from the first plucks of Laraaji's harp-centric score, Glass Gardens is a sad-eyed reflection on the future that faces a society stuck in the interminably souped-up present.
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Slowly, a little ripple is revealed in the middle of the water, and over the course of several unflinching minutes as a melancholic song plucks along, the camera zooms in on a boat, which then lands on a rainy beach.
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"I feel like I'm on a gameshow," Simmons says as she plucks mint and rosemary leaves from their stems before mixing them into a quick marinade with olive oil, lemon, and garlic for some lamb chops destined for the grill.
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Each year, the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (which starts its eighth iteration on Wednesday) plucks promising features and documentaries from Sundance, South by Southwest and elsewhere, and arranges them into a bouquet of puzzles, provocations and delights.
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In the corner of the room, another performer plucks a book from the shelf and begins reading seemingly to no one, despite the dancers in her orbit and a steady flow of onlookers absorbing the late architect Richard Neutra's former home.
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More often than not, Landais plucks morsels of dialogue or narration from the text and drops them, barely altered, into the film—a sensible procedure, not least at those moments of intensity which pierce the placid surface of the action.
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"'Bright Lights' plucks [Fisher's] star and that of her mother down from distant heights and lets us gently hold them for a time, reassuring us that their brilliance and humanity was real, their mutual endearment unbreakable," wrote Melanie McFarland for Salon.
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When the explosion hits, Mr. Jimmy, as the crew calls him, is in the shower; though naked and half-blinded by the blast, he plucks a jagged shard from his foot, tugs on his overalls and boots, and gets to work.
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It plucks the still-beating heart from your created character's chest and sets the newly-declared Arisen off on a quest to become a hero and rid the land of that same dragon, lest the world be thrown into darkness and destruction.
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Steven Spielberg takes on Roald Dahl's mischievous children's book about a big, friendly giant (Mark Rylance, in digital makeup) with a melancholy demeanor and expressive ears, and his evolving friendship with a young girl, Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), whom he plucks from an orphanage.
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This Otto Bell documentary soars alongside Aisholpan as she plucks an eaglet from a nest and teaches it to obey her directions — after which she becomes the youngest and only female contestant among 33 hunters on horseback at an annual eagle festival.
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On the way home from the beach last weekend, as we got into the car and turned on the radio, I immediately heard the familiar plucks of the cuatro, a steel-strung Puerto Rican guitar, on Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber's "Despacito" remix.
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"I think people assume the person behind Power is a person of color," Kemp says as she plucks a brush from her overflowing makeup bag to apply bronzer before a photo shoot; the word "Power" peeks out from the top corner of her jacket.
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It's very difficult to strip a song of instrumentation and create a great big empty space for your emotions to swell and marinate, to sing alongside gentle guitar plucks about cigarettes and death and sex and self-preservation, without sounding incredibly trite or try-hard.
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One of the most perfect moments is "Now That She's Gone," a desperate ballad that opens with a multi-tracked harmony about romantic dissolution before spiraling into an acoustic guitar solo as intricate and painterly as the delicate plucks of a lot of classical guitar work.
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The track itself is called "An Acre of Land" and it's rich, immersive, and full of depth, with Harvey's voice spread over hypnotic strings and the kind of guitar plucks that make you stare into the middle distance and completely forget where your physical body is.
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Sarah's eyes also come into play when the corrupt and leering Captain Connor spots an eyelash on her cheek and plucks it from her face, demanding she blow it from his fingers, which are encrusted with the dried blood of a recent assault victim, for good luck.
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"It's not so much the stocking inside," she explains to me as she combs the fat, barrel curls into smooth Marcel waves and plucks at the hairline with tweezers — an exacting process that requires the stylist to deftly extract hairs to make the wig's hairline appear more natural.
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Located on the campus of the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) a non-profit community center nestled in the centrally located neighborhood of MacArthur Park, the west coast branch of this South Bronx-originated program plucks a crop of eager, passionate applicants and turns them into bonafide filmmakers.
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Roger Putnam, who has worked at Carolina Cotton Works for six years manning a machine that naps and plucks the fabric for maximum softness, goes out of his way to tell me that while his wife shops for most of his clothes, he had gotten himself an American Giant sweatshirt.
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It's possible that I care about audio quality more than the average person — I'm not happy when headphones obscure the little blips, whimpers and creeping plucks of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android," and I need cans that won't fuzz out the crunchy noise of "Mother Puncher" by Mastodon — but I'm not an obsessive.
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You can see it on Broadway in "The Ferryman," when the gentle Tom Kettle plucks a rabbit (real name Pierce) from his coat pocket — a trick that may have grown old to his neighbors in the play but is electric for the audience: this tiny, darling, pulsing presence, all fur and vulnerability.
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Another remarkable track is Moby's reworking of "Hell in Paradise," from Starpeace (1985), in which he plucks two words ("under" and "over" from the couplet "Underqualified for love/Overqualified for life") from this dance-worthy look at dystopia and sets them against a throbbing beat in a synth-sound bath that's all otherworldly atmosphere.
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Dewey Redman's tenor sax roughs up the alto/trumpet/violin-wielding leader, Charlie Haden bows darkly more than he plucks staunchly, and the drummer is 12-year-old Denardo, rumbling irrepressibly all over nine titles that are sometimes also tunes—"New York" and "Broken Shadows" cross-referential, "Song for Ché" a dirge to remember.
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Arid plucks stand alongside glassy harmonics and held notes with growly burrs: Here, as in "Esplorazione del Bianco III" (1986), for a percussionist taking full advantage of a drum kit's resources, Mr. Sciarrino's music is colorless — white, obviously, comes to mind — but not textureless, just as water can exist as liquid, steam, snow, ice.
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What is unusual about Ly's movie, however, and oddly counterintuitive, is that it plucks at your nerves most tightly not when the plot speeds up—during the quest for Buzz's damning evidence, say—but as the police mosey through their parish, greeting the locals (including one whom they put in jail a few years back) and browsing the goods at a street market.
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Released through a fresh new website, the first mix plucks you from office-based stagnation and drops you face first on the dancefloor, gifting you with hard-hitting foreboding beats from Fade To Mind's NA, club-ready workout jams in the form of his "Lean and Bop" remix instrumental from last year, smooth commercial R&B thanks to Sevyn Streeter and everything in between.
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In Utagawa Sadahide's "True View of a Yokohama Merchant House" (1861), for example, an American woman and child happily play shuttlecock with a Japanese woman while a top-hatted American businessman negotiates with his Japanese counterpart in the background; and in the same artist's "An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama" (1861) an American woman plucks a violin laid across her lap in emulation of a nearby Japanese woman with a shamisen.
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In her work, photographer and performance artist Jaimie Warren has taken self-portraits in which she has transformed herself into, among other things, a sybaritic version of the Hindu goddess Kali who smokes joints from each of her eight hands; a heaping plate of lasagna that is also the head of Lana Del Rey; and a ravenous Freddy Krueger and the screaming meatball he impales, plucks from a pizza, and gobbles up.
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