Sentence examples for described pick from inspiring English sources

Writing in 1968, Nikolaus Pevsner described Pick as "the greatest patron of the arts whom this century has so far produced in England, and indeed the ideal patron of our age".

Barman described Pick's office as a training school for future managers, with a regular turnover of staff who would go on to management positions when Pick thought them ready.

Charles Holden described Pick's management of meetings: "Here his decisions were those of a benevolent dictator, and the members left the meeting with a clear sense of a task to be performed, difficult, perhaps, and sometimes impossible, as might subsequently prove to be, but usually well worth exploring if only in producing convincing proof of obstacles.

More worryingly, he described picking up his favorite Urdu-language, pulp detective-fiction magazine in a Karachi bookstore and being startled by a passionate editorial denouncing the U.S. Predator drone attacks as a violation of Pakistani dignity and sovereignty.

One 18-year-old in Birmingham described picking up a bag of phones from T-Mobile in the city centre and throwing them into the air in the street.

The artist described picking a favourite character from Rowling's universe as "like trying to choose the shiniest object in Aladdin's Cave; you pick up one treasure, and another gem catches your eye", adding that his imagination is captured at the moment by building a Hogwarts "supported by magic – it's harder than you'd think".

Luckey described picking up a gun, aiming and firing it, then throwing it away using your hand exactly as you'd expect.

In "Blackberry-Picking," the speaker describes picking blackberries in his youth.

In one fairly wrenching scene he describes picking up his father following a cocaine binge in a flophouse; a parking lot attendant laughs when Dave explains that his dad has a drug problem and doesn't know where he left his car.

Shalaby describes picking up a Sisi poster as a cover to try to escape the area.

Stripping encryption from proprietary e-book formats, described in "Pick a book" (November 3rd), requires not only the Calibre software we mentioned but also a third-party plug-in.