But within two minutes, he was off in another direction, picking out the opening notes to "If You Want Me To Stay" before abandoning that, too.
In fact, he could go in the opposite direction: picking someone who has credentials as a moderate, and who could reposition the Republican ticket toward the center — at the risk of deeply annoying his base.
Judges record how often you are caught looking the wrong direction, picking dandelions, chasing butterflies and so on, and they randomly pull you aside to see if you can tell them what the score is, how many outs there are and what inning it is.
In one of his commercials Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential contender, even says that the nation is going "in the wrong direction," picking up the language of a standard survey question used to measure public discontent in what seemed at least in part devised to get voters to say the same thing to pollsters.
During this distance, each new step was taken in a direction picked from a normal distribution with the previous step's direction as the mean, and a standard deviation of π/4.
Mr. Burch gave Brie several stems of fresh basil, along with some specific directions: "Pick the leaves off and line them up with the points in the same place, please?
It's bottomless, a dust storm swirling in all directions, picking up Twain and Wyatt Earp, who aren't mentioned, Lyndon Johnson and Baby Doe, who are, until they're all flying through the air and screaming at each other, 'How are we going to get out of this?' And there's no Oz.
At the tail end of the '90s, a heart attack compelled him to leave art direction and pick up his camera once more.
To efficiently disseminate one node's evolutional states to other nodes over the network, we randomly select four orthogonal directions and pick four corresponding points outside the network along these directions.
This is all headed in the same direction and picking up speed".
