No wonder that for the homesick poet, Dorothea Mackellar, her homeland was "a sunburnt country,/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains".
And Ms. Corthron can be wonderful in showing how people create their own ordering poetry out of life's disorder, in characters ranging from a ragged, avuncular drug dealer (Mr. Thomas) to a perpetually angry representative of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (superbly portrayed by Jordan Lage).
The city has a wide income range, and the sight of ragged people meandering through town with shopping carts rarely brings a double-take.
Barium studies may show mucosal changes such as ulceration, pseudo-polypoid protrusions or contour irregularities ranging from tiny serrations to ragged margins and even circumferential lesions simulating malignancy.
Furthermore, a wide variety of microtubule end structures have been observed by electron microscopy, ranging from blunt, to tapered, to ragged 23, 24.
The Rocky Mountains of North America are the second longest mountain range in the world, running in a ragged line for 3,000 miles from British Columbia in Canada all the way southeast to the north of Mexico.
It was a straight-ahead admission by Cashman on a day when, like any number of others in this ragged season, he had to deal with news that ranged from bad to worse.
Today, years of various physical struggles seem to have dropped a few notes from the higher end of her range and added more rasp to an already ragged tone, but the glint and power are still there.
As a performance, it requires a range, from a soft, almost folky bridge to some brilliantly ragged falsetto leaps, and Danny did a decent job holding it all together.
She stopped seven shots, three at point-blank range in the first half, when her team was being run ragged.
The horizon to the west was a low ragged line made by distant mountains and there was a faint glow of yellow behind the ranges but there was no other light except the distant glimmer of Winslow.
