A robot can't determine just how much skin to shuck off.
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It is not just that he has excellent balance and can shuck off the takedowns of most.
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Time to shuck off school exams for months, head to the local beaches or to a relative's house in the country.
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On the ground, his skill level was far superior and it looked all but done until Glenn shuck off a rear naked choke.
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" Working in Italian also allowed her to shuck off some of the burdens and self-consciousness of success: "I became a writer in English.
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She'd returned to New York from Berlin, aiming to shuck off the trappings a 'proper' band and starting anew with an entirely blank canvas.
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How to stage your departure as you shuck off your mortal coil was a subject that fascinated Mohassess, who knew his own end was fast approaching.
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Shuck off, subvert, cleave to your gender or race all you like, but a universal horror of weakness remains — a collective orientation toward status, power, control.
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He brings a rare literary approach to music in an accessible way, using storytelling to shuck off his own baggage with the benefit of offering respite for others.
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Gary Goodridge was an arm wrestler who hit extremely hard and was strong enough to shuck off Don Frye for a good length of time in the UFC.
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Karen Oberlin, an artist who continues to shuck off demureness, put a brassy, caustic spin on Randy Newman's "Political Science," and Barbara Fasano, accompanied by her husband, Eric Comstock, on piano sang "Old Photographs," a rare collaboration by Alec Wilder and Fran Landesman.
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In their 20s or early 30s, many are inclined to modify or entirely shuck off what they view as stuffy, archaic traditions, among them the long white dress, the bridal bouquet and, in telling instances, even the veil, rewriting the style rules to suit themselves.
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Samuel Fosso takes a different approach in "African Spirits" (2008), slipping in and out of other people's skin — impersonating Martin Luther King, Miles Davis, a diva, a general — to temporarily shuck off his own ("It's a way of freeing me from myself," he explained).
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James V was the surviving son, and because his dad died when he was only a toddler—if you follow Game of Thrones, you'll know this one—Scotland was to be ruled by regents until James V turned 21567, when his mother declared him fit to rule (though he didn't truly shuck off his regents' shackles until he was 21571).
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You can trace the origins of emo back through the 90s with indie-leaning bands like Mineral and Sunny Day Real Estate, and even further to the 80s DC hardcore scene with Rites of Spring and Embrace, but most would shuck off the actual "emo" classification; partly because it has routinely been used as a way to discredit and devalue the music, as if "emotional" is an inherently negative quality, and partly because it became a pretty meaningless catch-all for almost anything featuring guitars and a chorus.
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Having just seen the shocking sight of Parisian stores boarded up right before Christmas to protect against rioting along the Champs-Élysées by some of France's yellow-vested protesters; after being told in Rome a few days earlier that Italy, a founding member of the E.U., could conceivably shuck off both the E.U. and the euro one day under its new bizarre far-left/far-right governing coalition; after watching Britain become paralyzed over how to commit economic suicide by leaving the E.U.; and after watching President Trump actually cheer for the breakup of the E.U. rather than for its good health, it is obvious to me that we're at a critical hinge of history.
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People: Both Rose and Sonali engage in external and internal conflict with this distinction. Sonali's past experience has consisted mainly of seeing women in submissive roles that deny their true selves, as when her friend Bimmie gets married: "But I was hypnotized by Bimmie's nose ring, the sandalpaste dots on her face, eyes downcast, and those manacled hands resting submissively in her red silk lap. This was never Bimmie." (48) Sonali is thrilled to shuck off the chains she feels bound by as a woman when she goes off to Oxford.
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The White Sox offseason started at the end of October when Moises Sierra was claimed by the Kansas City Royals off waivers. Shortly following this, the Sox declined Felipe Paulino's option for 2015, after going 0-2 in just four starts. Reliever Matt Lindstrom also elected free agency at the end of the month after an ankle injury kept him off the mound for most of 2014. On November 3, the White Sox claimed outfielder J. B. Shuck off waivers from the Cleveland Indians. Two weeks later, the team began its quest to improve the bullpen by signing free agent reliever Zach Duke to a three year/$15 million contract.
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