Sentence examples for ragged time from inspiring English sources

Refusing to let good fortune spoil his brand, Young wrote a second book, about his ragged time in Hollywood, "The Sound of No Hands Clapping" (2006).

Wells's contemporary Scott Joplin "ragged" time against "common" or march time, and Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey discovered how to stop time by resolving continuous motion into still images, which they and Edison put back together as "movies".

In these ragged times, where progress moves along on three wheels and a flat tire, most Americans do not need to fall in love with a leader.

I do run myself ragged from time to time, trying to make sure that we (me plus whomever I am with) are reaching the fairest solution, resolution or conclusion as possible, for the sake of all.

"Goodbye, Lenin!" is a record of that ragged, unhappy time when one system had failed and another was awkwardly, crudely trying to take its place.

David Zucker, the owner of Dave's Cast of Characters in New Rochelle, runs himself ragged this time of year, when summer birthday parties stack up.

Between all the activities, it's easy to run yourself ragged this time of year.

Sometimes called a "mitotic clock," telomeres grow a tiny bit more ragged each time a cell divides -- a process that is sped up by illness, stress and chronic adversity.

The production may be unpolished, even ragged at times, but it's also irresistible (2 00).

There were problems in the first half and things were ragged at times.

Without Bird, the Americans looked ragged at times on offense against France.