The harp is the final member of the formal orchestral five, and certainly the pluckiest, with not only the biggest range, but also being far the oldest, with some of the earliest Persian and European models going back to 3500BC.
They have come from predominantly white churches and predominantly black churches, venerable churches with distinguished lineages and smaller, plucky churches with little more than spirit and gumption.
They have planned their plucky venture with love, stylishness and a meticulous eye for detail.
The trailer for "Turtle: The Incredible Journey" promises more excitement than you might suspect could be packed into a story about loggerhead turtles, a plucky seafarer with high mileage.
The production has a first-rate Viola in Tam Williams, who combines the usual plucky resourcefulness with a tremulous, woundable quality that increases your emotional investment in her.
The Netherlands, a plucky team with one current major leaguer in its lineup, shocked the powerful Dominicans, 3-2, in the World Baseball Classic at Hiram Bithorn Stadium here.
Cole has evidently managed to craft another feelgood ensemble comedy about plucky underdogs with universal appeal, in the vein of his previous Calendar Girls.
Pop music may be unusually sympathetic to the plucky amateur with more imagination than know-how but architecture, for various reasons including not wanting people to be crushed or burned to death, has somewhat higher barriers to entry.
It should come as no surprise that its practitioners, who pride themselves on doing things other people wont and dont, are a plucky breed, with a capacity for self-invention that makes Madonna look stuck in a rut.
