If there is a fault in Loach's film, it lies in the disjunct between the ultra-naturalist style, which allows characters to engage in authentically ragged political rows, and the schematic melodrama of the narrative which too neatly confronts both Damien and Teddy with mirroring moral dilemmas.
Mr. DeVecchio tried several legal maneuvers — including claiming immunity from prosecution as a federal agent — but each failed, and he appeared in court yesterday in a drab gray suit, ragged crew cut and crinkled features, watched from the gallery by rows of agents dressed nearly identically.
Sad bookworms such as me, with rows of ragged volumes of Hegel and Marx on our shelves, will find plenty of well-made points in these pages, but many readers may find themselves lapsing into baffled torpor.
In the first row, I could hear his ragged breathing.
Some of the coffee shrubs – laid out in serried ranks with no shade trees at all – appear ragged and dehydrated, while the paths between the rows look like sterile dust rather than soil, because artificial fertilisers have replaced organic matter.
Among Steavenson's flights of poetry, Seira cites this paragraph: We touched down in a cloud of dust, loaded into a convoy of Land Rovers and were shaken past a row of mud villages filled with buffalo and ragged children with flies in their eyes.
Inside, the chairs are pushed back to the walls, the polished wooden pews are lined up in rows at the far side, and people are resting on ragged mattresses on the floor.
The silt-covered contents of people's homes, Christmas trees included, have gone from the pavements now, but we're still faced with a ragged gap where the travel agent once was, like a missing tooth in a rotten row.
Weeklies are murder to produce, but ragged and risky is better than rote. 5. LOSE THE ROYAL 'WE' The Take, Newsweek's murderer's row of point-of-view journalism, promises to tell the reader "what we think of the world".
Your breathing becomes ragged.
