Sentence examples for Personal pluck from inspiring English sources

For without Guggenheim's sharp eye, personal pluck and frenzied determination – as the Germans marched into Paris she embarked on a mission to save a painting a day – it is quite possible that seminal works by Brâncuşi, Klee, Mondrian, Magritte and Kandinsky would have disappeared in one of the Nazis bonfires of "degenerate" art.

Governor Perry called up the Texas National Guard on Tuesday, and crews in helicopters, boats and personal watercraft helped pluck stranded motorists and homeowners from floodwaters.

Wantful The site is like a virtual personal shopper assigned to pluck a selection of items for everyone on your holiday shopping list.

It is a courageous piece of work, full of anxiety, pain and doubt, but also pluck and personal discovery, and all tempered by a self-mocking humour.

Adam Gopnik plucked his personal highlights from the film.

Patients' records, he said, apparently were plucked from personal computers in doctors' offices at what he would identify only as an "organization" on the East Coast.

The perpetrator then roots through the victim's redirected mail, plucking out personal information and using it to fill out new credit-card applications that also come by mail.

This was a president who had plucked his personal White House doctor out of relative obscurity to head up perhaps the most troubled and bureaucratically unwieldy department of the federal government.

The patient records, he said, were apparently plucked from personal computers in doctors' offices at what he would only identify as an "organization" on the East Coast of the United States.

Media Metrix estimates that nearly 7.4 million households in the United States now have devices like cell phones, pagers and personal digital assistants that can pluck data from the airwaves.

And that's an important distinction for folks familiar with the likes of Kickstarter or Indiegogo: OurCrowd is not first generation "crowdfunding," where passion and pluck, and a personal, touch often combine to draw interested supporters.