By that point, it would have been too late to do anything about it, too late to pluck her words from the air.
It's a rare and fleeting sight, this emergency recall of language, and I find it touching, as though the person had reached out to pluck his words from the air before they could set about doing their disastrous work in the world, making their author seem boring or unfunny or ignorant or glib or stupid.
So he plucked two words, "downmarket scrubbers", from that paragraph in order to accuse Hyde (and Rusbridger) of a "repellent" and "baffling"… "verbal sexual assault" on Page 3 models, asking: "How on earth did the Guardian and its columnist Marina Hyde sink to this nadir?" Entirely missing the point that Hyde was mocking Murdoch's class condescension, Caseby denounced her for it.
Words plucked out of the air some forty years ago when I was wild with love.
And don't underestimate the informational power of Google's news-group-searching feature, which plucks out individual words from millions of Internet bulletin-board discussions.
Here are some preferred Galgutian words, plucked at random from the text, that set the superficial flavour of the work: placelessness, free-fall, centreless, inertia, unweighted, substanceless.
Hearing him playing Big Love solo – hollering the words, plucking at his hollow-bodied electric – is one of the unexpected highlights of a set that can sometimes feel like a rewrite of history.
The Big Six studios like going to the Internet for advertising blurbs because there is such a huge array of sites from which to pluck the right word or phrase.
Studios were not above quoting critics who did not exist (Sony), or hiring actors to masquerade as moviegoers and give a thumbs-up to a film in a television ad (20th Century Fox), or plucking out positive words from negative reviews.
Trump had plucked a few words from a statement Khan issued early on Sunday morning, in which he said he was grieving for the victims, asserted that the terrorists "would not win," and explained to his constituents some of the extra security precautions that were being taken in the wake of the attack.
