Sentence examples for director picked from inspiring English sources

One day last month, Patterson Sims, the museum's new director, picked his way through all this, like a father checking on the progress of his young child.

I found the Pure room at the Premier hard to distinguish from a regular room until the room division director picked up the couch to reveal a large metal air filtration unit underneath.

ON the last Sunday of October, Martha Clarke, the choreographer and director, picked up a chain saw and took a walk through the woods by her house in Sherman, Conn.

At her downtown studio the other day, Cynthia Altoriso, a stylist and art director, picked up her trailing Maggie Norris shawl, sashed it bandoleer-fashion across her torso, then wrapped it stole-like around her shoulder, made a bow at the small of her back for a bustle effect, and finally draped it over a band-collar shirt.

(Helin says she and the writers sat down at the very beginning and chose her wardrobe together. "When I started, they had already picked the car. I think they just thought it was a cool car". The director picked the brown leather trousers: "And I said, yeah, that's good. When I got the coat, I said, this is perfect. It wasn't hard").

With Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, New Wave, 15), for which the director picked up his second Grand Jury prize, Ceylan cemented his reputation as a master craftsman at the top of his game, a director whose painterly visual tableaux and trance-like narrative rhythms seem to be reimagining the canvas of cinema itself.

GREG McCRICKARD, a Price managing director, picks the small-cap stocks.

Playing the tiny role of "bellboy" in the 1949 Barbara Stanwyck film The Lady Gambles, he was in his bellhop costume, getting ready to come on for a rehearsal, when he saw the director picking his way towards him behind the set over the light cables.

The board should have every director pick an exhibitor they've never met to have coffee or a beer with at MediaXchange.

Nils and I had every opportunity to sell this; Fox Searchlight offered us $2 million for this script but we turned them down flat because they were going to pick the director, pick the actors, and they'd make the movie they wanted to, not the movie we wanted.

He will step down as chief executive on Sept. 1 and as chairman at year's end, turning both jobs over to Daniel F. Akerson, a former telecommunications executive who was one of several new G.M. directors picked last year by the Obama administration to oversee the automaker's revival.