The episodes Turner picked out from classical myth and biblical fable are boldly reinterpreted when he paints them.
Once Jamal is picked out from the crowd, however, his story becomes alarmingly focussed.
She picked out from the show a classic: a loose flowing black dress, caught gently at the waist.
In 1993, I had used Sygmnd to find a cat burglar, whom he rather miraculously picked out from almost a hundred strays.
One of the villagers, Abdul Muhammad, 40, unwrapped some shards of human skull that he said they had picked out from the bloodstain.
He has a lasting regret, picked out from the vast, inexpressible void of things left unsaid or undone: "I never got to know Mum as an adult.
The conversations that have been picked out from the past acquire a special energy because they are edged by silence or forgetting.
Across the wide, rain-dampened runway, Morgan Saylor of "Homeland" was dolled up in a 3.1 Phillip Lim navy dress that she had picked out from the look book because, she said, "it was chic, but still looked young".
As you'd imagine, the menu was exemplary: pâté de campagne picked out from a local charcuterie; a chard-and-tomato soup made by Beard, which Julia amusingly called soupe barbue (bearded soup); roast chicken; gratin dauphinois; green beans; sorbet.
Or, according to the Maidu, who live largely in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains, it's made from mud, picked out from under the nails of a turtle that had scraped it up at the bottom of the primordial soup.
On a summer morning just over two years ago, Abdul Qayim watched as 12 fellow inmates were picked out from a group that had been gathered into the yard of the Taliban prison in Kandahar.
