Onstage, the songs needed only his acoustic guitar, lightly picked or firmly strummed, and his unforced voice.
There were long, gradual fade-outs that selectively revealed a lightly picked acoustic guitar, a sustained cello line or brushes on the drums; there were crescendos of feedback courting chaos.
Three to five colonies were lightly picked from fresh overnight culture plate to suspend in 150 μl AE buffer.
I leaned over and very quickly bit it lightly, and then picked up my SkyMall catalogue and began reading.
Seasoned and steamed, breaded and lightly fried, or picked clean for crab cakes, few crustaceans are more delicious.
The acoustic guitar is still there, now lightly strummed and picked in the sensitive-guy style of John Mayer, though it's usually just a preamble to a big crescendo and more reassuring bromides: "We don't need nothing, as long as we got love," he sings in a duet with Natasha Bedingfield.
The final yield was 450 pounds of freshly picked, lightly steamed, very local frozen carrots for winter meals like veggie stir-fry, peas-n-carrots and candied carrots.
Oddly, contrast sensitivity — as measured by a test of the eye's ability to pick out very lightly shaded images on white backgrounds — was among the most predictive of the 377 factors evaluated, as was the number of rapid step-ups on a low platform that the subjects could complete in 10 seconds.
Spray lightly with isopropyl alcohol to pick up debris and dust.
Then, "I take a clean mascara wand and lightly comb through the lash to pick up any excess product and separate the lashes".
