Sentence examples for drag mostly from inspiring English sources

Ms. Stuart used the idea of a conference rather than a panel, but the almost two-hour "Auf den Tisch!" was sometimes, inevitably, a drag, mostly when the participants forced an intellectual conceit or didn't allow for enough quiet, enough stillness.

The purpose of the rudder, or tail rotor in a helicopter is to minimise drag mostly, and reduce motion sickness for passengers when maneuvering.

For someone on £30,000 a year, the tax burden has probably gone up by "only" about 2 percentage points.Fiscal drag is mostly to blame.

(Siobhan Burke Les Ballets CC de la B (Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, through March 25) Inspired by the film "Yo Soy Así," about the closing of a transvestite cabaret in Barcelona, "Gardenia" brings together drag artists (mostly in their 70s) and younger performers to examine interlocking ideas about gender, personal identity and performance.

The West Village – the hub of the modern gay movement, thanks to the 1969 rebellion at the Stonewall Inn – still bristles with gay bars and drag clubs, mostly unaffected hangouts such as the appealing Pieces, and The Monster, a two-floor nightlife emporium with piano bar on top and disco down below.

In the 1950s and 1960s, "drag queens" mostly lip-synced to recordings, rarely doing "live" material.

The returns were dragged down mostly by the dismal performance of international equities, whose returns declined by 11.9 percent, attributable in good part to the economic turmoil in Europe and the slowdown in China.

Because, once again, Congress needs a fifth week of vacation before they drag their mostly-useless carcasses back to Washington to attempt to do the nation's business.

Indeed, if the entire USDA heard and felt that history, they'd not have dragged their mostly-white feet so long in getting black farmers justice.

Here are just a few of the features that can be found in various New York bars these days: Bacon-infused cocktails, girls swimming in tanks, a lively game of boccie, a staff of mostly drag queens, leather-bound books, scientific demonstrations, vintage video games and a $10 manicure-and-martini manicure-and-martini manicure-and-martini

By modeling Winter's movements in 3D and studying the wake patterns she created while wearing her prosthetic, the researchers found that only the downstroke of Winter's fluke helped propel her forward; the upward motion of her fluke generated mostly drag.