Let he who is without sin cast the first plucked-out orb of Oedipal horror.
On the first and most striking of these pieces, which come numbered like classical variations, Mr. Turner conjugates a four-note phrase while Mr. Grenadier offers a counterline, first plucked and then bowed.
"Why shouldn't you be the best you can be?" Zach asks Cassie (Charlotte d'Amboise), his former lover whom he first plucked from a chorus at the age of twenty-two.
It was only on the penultimate day that we first plucked up the courage to tackle the (appropriately named) "Wall" – a steep black run with some fantastic moguls to challenge us.
From the opening second of this clip you see the extraordinary vividness with which he translates the sounds of his accompanying guitar into physical shape and force, gesturing softly to the first plucked note, then snapping with steel-trap precision into the ferocious diagonal that ricochets across each repeating note.
The cimbalom is a variety of zither or dulcimer, a pretty little tablelike instrument, and Mr. Balogh put it through its paces, first plucking its strings, then striking them with various sets of hammers to present a whole range of sound colors in his dazzling opening piece by an 18th-century cimbalom player named Pal Tendi.
The earliest tuneable instrument, the stringed harp, was first plucked in modern-day Iraq in around 4,500BC. 26.
Using a technique called whole-genome random sequencing, a TIGR team mapped the entire two-million-gene sequence of Thermotoga maritima, a bacterium first plucked from hot geothermal springs in Vulcano, Italy.
James Russell Lowell, who had privately called Griswold "an ass and, what's more, a knave", composed a verse on Griswold's temperament in his satirical A Fable for Critics: But stay, here comes Tityrus Griswold, and leads on The flocks whom he first plucks alive, and then feeds on— A loud-cackling swarm, in whose feathers warm dressed, He goes for as perfect a — swan as the rest.
Initially, there is a slight twinge of pain on first plucking.
