Baghdad was a looted, picked over, unhappy place.
At lunch, on the top deck of a red London transport bus that had been turned into a canteen, he picked over his lamb cutlets.
Bede is dead, shot to pieces, slumped in a bloodied car, picked over by police officers, bringing it right back to the start.
But, if nothing else, "Darwin's Sacred Cause" shows that there is still new material to be gleaned from the life of a man much picked over, and who turned the world upside down.
In about a year, green, cutting-edge Reppie will replace a vast rubbish dump picked over by hundreds of scavengers.
When I visited, both Landis and Amber said they were tired of maintaining a defensive posture, of having their lives picked over by a suspicious, gossip-loving public.
The convoy crept by a smoldering junkyard being picked over by Iraqis.
Mr. Oliveira lets conversations go on in long takes until a topic has been picked over from every conceivable angle.
Even this 12th-century crusader castle, Krak des Chevaliers, a fabulous place long picked over by archaeologists and historians, is full of mysteries.
All in all, including Facebook at "Len Berman's Top 5," you picked over a dozen other movies.
A creative, clever man calmly picked over his achievements, in what Staveacre understatedly called a "rather desperate situation".
