desultorily

Examples of desultory

desultory
This group will wait in a kind of desultory silence, with little chatting, before the tea is handed into the room from the back.
The bodies are like plasticine, disjointed and collapsing under pressure, while the movements seem desultory and impersonal.
Identifying the established church in close scriptural analyses and involved textual exegesis was far more than a desultory application of convenient imagery or simile.
In fact, she works at far below her true capacity - she studies very little and makes desultory efforts - and is still richly rewarded.
Classrooms are, of course, sites of natural, or informal, or desultory conversation.
However irregular and desultory his talk, there is method in the fragments.
Soviet opera in the 1920s had been a desultory affair and was in urgent need of reform.
It is, moreover, somewhat desultory and impressionistic-as well as confessedly tentative.
The ending is not consolation, but desolation - or, if even that risks sounding too sentimental - desultory, with a few clattery, breathy sounds that might as well be silence.
The conversation was desultory, lazy, pointless.
Edmonston (1809) noted that women usually lived longer than men, and preserved their faculties better, 'it may be from having been less exposed to excessive and desultory labour'.
The convoys of food have been kept up in spite of desultory attacks made by hooligans and strikers.
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