brain-picking

Definitions

Examples

• A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.

• Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”

• We have to use common sense inclusiveness, because we are quickly getting to a place where our brain is falling out.

• The truth is that Judd is really just picking an arbitrary number since there is no script.

• My father has suffered two strokes and endured brain cancer since I was arrested and imprisoned.

• All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

• Persistent glycosuria has been noted in brain injuries involving the floor of the fourth ventricle.

• His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.

• There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.

• She had forced herself to eat most of her soup, and now she was picking the flaky bits of a court bouillon with her fork.