Plucks

It'll take several "plucks," but you'll get it done. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think Joy Behar is a total riot and I love that she is an outspoken liberal. .but this show still kind of plucks my nerves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reflective dignity with which he chronicles the last available scraps of life – "pure pain, / Essence of scream and despair", "A spider's thread, / Hangs from the ceiling / Directly over my bed" – speaks to his humanity and plucks at ours as much as it does to his daunting poetic skill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Boland sits on a wedge of limestone and plucks at a skin of moss. ❋ Kilean Kennedy (2011)

He gently plucks Japanese beetles off their leaves each morning and drowns them in a jar of soapy water. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

She plucks the spud twixt thumb and forefinger before lobbing it with practised accuracy into the compost bin near the strawberry beds. ❋ Chris Arnot (2010)

She plucks her cocktail straw out of her drink and flicks it in disgust. ❋ F. J. Lennon (2011)

Instead of evil's banality, Mr. Cooper gives us the elation generated by Uday's unmoored id as he plucks innocent schoolgirls off a Baghdad street, defiles a bride on her wedding day or slaughters his father's whoremaster in a delirium of displaced rage. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Gantz Vol. 4 (Dark Horse): This book is about a weird computer that plucks people from their lives to kill aliens or die trying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She plucks a sprig of mint from her glass of tea and goes behind the counter to get something. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

After Julie leaves him with cab money and a friendly farewell, Landry plucks up for the dancer paying him attention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's like hitting the financial sector jackpot: Warren Buffett plucks you out of relative obscurity and anoints you as a possible successor to his throne. ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

Tiny Wheeler keeps a quiet personal presence at stage right, but she plucks her mandolin with bright precision, notes fading into silence at exactly the correct tempo. ❋ Georgianne Nienaber (2011)

City pump the ball back into the mixer, where Tim Howard plucks it from the sky. ❋ Unknown (2012)

I am here, watching men pluck grapes off lush, heavy vines while my mother plucks a tuna sandwich out of a Dumpster four thousand miles away. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

Levi renders the entire chamber orchestra as one of her homemade instruments--emitting a plethora of pecks, plucks, and other various twitterings, which are especially evident at the end of "Unlucky." ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

"Surely putting out the message not to delete a recorded programme is akin to the cartoon favourite "I'm just putting this pie on the window ledge to cool" when there is a hungry dog in the room," muses Phil Withall.6 min: A high cross-field pass from left to right goes over Iniesta, who just turns and plucks it out of the sky before it goes out for a goal-kick. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Watercolour," a show at the Tate Britain museum in London, plucks the art from its usual context—shows of U.K. landscape painters—and traces it back through 800 years of history, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to abstract works of modern-day artists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This cousin of the lap steel guitar uses a wheel mechanism which when turned, plucks strings altered in pitch with a metal bar. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)