The act of picking it up fills me with embarrassment.
The balancing act of picking winners and losers was evident on Monday at the White House.
The act of picking one thing over another thing saved them.
"The very act of picking up the phone is an attempt to reach out one last time," she said.
In Mrs. Frey's case, as with so many new mothers, and a few new dads, the "repetitive lifting" was the everyday act of picking up her baby.
Yet it was the very act of picking up the prejudiced notion and suggesting it was a valid opinion for public debate that was so offensive, something the BBC utterly failed to acknowledge.
For those who do pine for a bit of black ink on their fingers, however, the timeless act of picking blackberries will both help the nostalgic and provide the means for many a delight in the kitchen.
The most exciting, and my favourite, is foraging, which originally meant to wander in search of food and provisions, but is used these days to describe the act of picking and eating wild foods.
Kentridge described a rigorous exercise in which Lecoq students had to act out six degrees of tension in breathing and speaking — he demonstrated them for me — from a kind of lassitude that made movement of any kind virtually impossible, to the sixth degree, in which the simple act of picking up a fork involves a "rictus of tension that corresponds to Japanese Noh theatre".
Hidalgo-Clyne missed the conversion, and 10 minutes later, Ragusi performed a remarkable act of pick-pocketing to strip Tim Visser of the ball and scamper up the unguarded flank to score.
For some, the act of picking up a camera is an exercise in futility.
