Sentence examples for amount of pluck from inspiring English sources
But even that, from Kris Commons, took an immeasurable amount of pluck to convert in a cauldron where 60,000 partisan Glaswegians held their breath in fearful silence.
The glorious strength of Rosie Sayer had survived a trip down a crocodile-infested river and a German gunboat attack, but no amount of pluck could see Hepburn through the American fifties with her dignity intact.
We can keep fooling folks with the notion that somehow with the right amount of pluck and bootstrap pulling, everyone will someday become Albert Einstein, a fairy princess, or J.P. Morgan.
Score: 3/5 Why you should listen: Dawson takes his folk roots and flips them inside out on this collection of discordant, hugely personal songs – the album's just four tracks long, but packs a fair amount of plucked electric guitar and oft-unintelligible singing into its 40-odd minutes.
White-crowned sparrows have also been shown to replace substantial amounts of plucked feathers without experiencing a rise in RMRmin [41], demonstrating that feather replacement per se can not explain the increased energy demands measured during the molt period.
We have not spent inordinate amounts of time plucking and plumping and pruning and polishing up our pussies as the ultimate prize to be rewarded to the victor.
Though the glossies have pronounced the thick Charlotte Gainsbourg-esque look au courant, we of the looming Unibrow, spend inordinate amounts of time plucking, trimming and praying that we don't morph into Dr. Zaius of Planet of the Apes stature while we sleep at night.
For some analyses, we used a sub-sample of both the 20 breeding territories and the total amount of defecation posts and plucking sites.
Pick your arsenal and upgrade your perks between stages; eliminate a designated amount of varied enemies (and stages) plucked from the Resi archives; and collect medals based on how well you did.
So the experience of a supermarket, in which an almost limitless amount of food sat, ready-picked and plucked, or of restaurants, where one was presented with a choice of what to eat, made the world feel upside down.
Secondly, Osborne has taken the advice of the 17th century French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who said the art of taxation was to pluck the goose with the minimum amount of hissing.
