Fiddling things.

Fiddling at the Fire

Fiddling things, roses, especially in bud.

My fault you're fiddling with a deadly weapon?

And so here is what I came up with. I start fiddling with it.

Of course, he never built it, because he was always fiddling with new plans, but when it did get built, of course, in the 1940s, everything changed.

You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping it'll all come out right in the end.

I feel that you and I should do all in our power to stop that old Dr. Cudler and his quartet of psychologists from fiddling around in the home situation.

Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. It's an inspired collaboration that will have you clapping along.

Finally, my plea to you is to allow yourselves, and your children, and anyone you know, to kind of fiddle with stuff, because it's by fiddling with things that you, you know, you complement your other learning. It's not a replacement, it's just part of learning that's important.

Why are those numbers so finely tuned to allow stars to shine and planets to form, when we recognize that if you fiddle with those numbers if I had 20 dials up here and I let you come up and fiddle with those numbers, almost any fiddling makes the universe disappear.

Even the machinery of US military combat is portrayed non heroically. Instead of the classic images of the US Cavalry courageously sweeping down on the savages, or of decent American doughboys bravely clearing out nests of Nazis, bored technocrats, insulated by immense layers of technology, firebomb green valleys, slaughtering enemy warriors and defenseless women and babies while sipping coffee and casually fiddling with touch screens.