Sentence examples for pluck a performance from inspiring English sources
Pluck, a performance for string instruments of all kinds, will take place in Canary Wharf.
According to program notes, Ms. Green intended in her new solo "Shadow Catcher" to summon the memories of dancers she has performed with in her 15-year career in a way that replicated the percussionist Joel Davel's performance "plucking an orchestra from the air" with the Buchla Lightning, an electronic instrument.
It says much about the spirit and resilience of Chris Hughton's team that somehow they summoned a performance from that initial disarray and came close to plucking a point.
Frontman Win Butler made frequent excursions into the audience and, during the song Flashbulb Eyes, plucked a camera from a press photographer and carried it on stage to capture the band's performance.
He plucked a quarter from… Talk.
Pizzicato — plucking a string instrument rather than bowing it — is an effect that often goes unnoticed, but it spoke to the precision of the Royal Stockholm's performance that every instance registered, from the pearlescent rounded notes of the second-movement Andante to the ferocious cello plucks in the finale.
I plucked a morsel from the soft lump of garri.
Apollonia plucked a smooth, taut miche from the shelf.
Finally, a nomad plucked a piece from the dunes.
