desultory sentence examples
- Desultory fashion, went on.
- The book is not always dynamic or funny, and sometimes garcía márquez just narrates the
rather desultory
days he just lived.
- After some time his output of talk
became more desultory
as he continued to fail to make progress.
- Desultory conversations.
- This is definitely a modernist product: fragmentary,
somewhat desultory, aware of its belatedness.
- Desultory way.
- I'd been to frontier land in morecombe, it was
fairly desultory
but at the back was an optimistically named house of fun.
- Desultory attempt
to clean off the worst of the unspeakable something left over from the party.
- Desultory fighting.
- Desultory discussion
in 1994, a committee of 14 mps nodded through the units of measurement regulations.
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