| 单词 | desultory |
| 例句 | Not wishing to call attention to himself, the agent gave the horn a brief beep, then drove right up to the pig, which snorted desultorily, refusing to move on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was desultorily attending graduate school, I met in the coffee shop one day a Miss Myma Minkoff, a young undergraduate, a loud, offensive maiden from the Bronx. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She went into the bedroom, turned back her mattress and took from under it a notebook in which she had kept a desultory diary during her thirteenth year, and a square manila envelope. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Meliton Naranjo was sitting in the doorway of the chopper, desultorily hunched over, smoking a cigarette; the pilot had stretched out on the grass nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I trained in a desultory way, and only years later, when I had put on a few more pounds, did I begin to box in earnest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cardan swings his sword in a desultory manner, and Balekin brings down his staff hard, smacking him in the side of the head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mostly he says incomprehensible things in Kikongo but also speaks like Mr. Poe’s Raven a desultory English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back in his seat and kept desultory account of all that went on around him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They spoke instead in a desultory fashion of current events. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She dragged her feet down the jet bridge, holding my hand and staring at the floor desultorily, until we stepped into the terminal and she caught the scent of Subway. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He came from behind the bar and resumed his desultory sweeping just as Lana, Darlene, and the bird, looking like a small unruly mob, burst in from the alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat and praised Tanzania and dreamed about stockfish and were still talking desultorily when a Peugeot 403 sped across the street. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z General Macarthur and the judge had been pacing the terrace outside, exchanging desultory comments on the political situation. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Ignatius treated the story to a desultory reading. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked desultorily for some minutes, then, without apparent reason, a yell from the telescreen bade them be silent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mood was not exactly desultory, but it wasn’t festive, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I put on my other jogging suit, the cerise one, and do some desultory stretching exercises on Jon’s floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If they found food in a student’s pocket, they would sometimes deliver a couple of desultory whacks with a stick. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The slates flew off and shattered themselves with desultory crashes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is all rather amusing in a desultory way, but to little effect beyond a casual mix of flippancy and good humor. Review: Spouses, the Antichrist, and a Shrink and Ex-Patient Meet in Summer Shorts 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z After desultory sex with Deirdre, the Agricorp executive, and the realization that he hadn’t noticed that his son, Henry, was a math prodigy, Philip got the real punch in the gut. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z She pursues a desultory workplace romance with Victor Blue, a broken-down fellow continually in trouble with his boss for his surreally inappropriate picture and caption choices. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z Instead Ms. Bent captures the desultory passage of hours, taking her time to reveal the characters’ inner worlds, which are no less deeply felt for being unremarkable. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z Chatting desultorily, weapon at the ready, the marauders steal money, photographs, letters, a watch, a cape, as their helpless victims look on, fearful and incredulous. ‘Rainey Royal,’ by Dylan Landis 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z What began as a desultory pastime has turned into a minor obsession, and is now about to become a book. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z He did a desultory stint at Parsons and took odd jobs as a baby sitter, a sidewalk sketcher, an extra in the Metropolitan Opera’s “Turandot.” Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z As I scanned the sights and people along with Tenzin, I began to worry that I was missing something too, wondering if I was reading the signs wrong, or dwelling on the lead’s desultory acting. ‘Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache’ Review: Beyond Belief 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z This astringent yet oddly desultory book, a curio from a very good writer, more resembles, for good and ill, an anchovy. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Lee delivers these predictable plot devices at such a desultory, even grudging pace that it is clear that the story line is not her chief interest here. All dressed up, but this 'fish story' goes nowhere 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But rather than serial romances pursued across the Continent, much of what follows consists of desultory pleasures enjoyed by Casanova at home and, later, affairs with servants at a Carpathian boarding house. ‘Story of My Death,’ a Tale of Casanova and Dracula 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z But his albums during the 1980s and 1990s were largely desultory affairs, and he spent less time writing his own songs even while remaining a popular touring act. Reluctant songwriter Rod Stewart honored in Hollywood 2011-04-28T07:45:06Z Another, involving Mitchel’s desultory affair with Charlotte, is so perfunctory and undernourished it might as well have been discarded. | 'London Boulevard': ?London Boulevard,? With Colin Farrell - Review 2011-11-11T00:07:02Z Come to think of it, there was not much desultory chitchat at all. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z But the play and its desultory rhythms are a gift to its actors, many of whom have been doing sterling work, particularly at the Irish Repertory Theater, for years. Review: In ‘The Naturalists,’ a Farm and a Family Evolve 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z She said of “Hyperion”: “It is desultory, objectless, a thing of shreds and patches like the Author’s mind.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The result is desultory, often tuneless, and the kind of disc that would be forgotten in a long career. Review: Kate Nash's 3rd album is desultory 2013-03-04T16:40:10Z We were in exile: our city was a long way off, and so were books, friends, the various desultory events of a real existence. Read Natalia Ginzburg's "Winter in the Abruzzi" 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z It simply did not happen in fuzzy, desultory sets by Demi Lovato and Gym Class Heroes, both of whom gave the impression that they had better things to do. Music Review: Music Review: Z-100?s Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden 2011-12-10T23:10:08Z After some desultory runs that failed to stir my youthful quest for danger, I soon left for Cannon and its frightfully steep slopes. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z They tend to live in trailers and work desultory jobs. Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The story of those desultory decades occupies the first half the book. The story behind the woman who helped make healthy eating cool 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z He pines over Mani, compares his life to “a mediocre movie,” even desultorily contemplates suicide. Review: ‘War of the Encyclopaedists,’ by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The Champagne has turned into crusty pieces of ice that they rub together in a desultory toast. ‘If You Don’t, I Will’ Stars Mathieu Amalric 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Often they die, providing the desultory main character an opportunity to experience true feeling, until the feeling passes. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z These may seem like technical problems, but in fact they spring from the book’s bedrock failure, which lies in its design, its desultory attempts at bigness, at significance. Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The sinuous narrative meanders, its desultory pace mesmerizing, and Ondaatje’s characters seem adrift on currents that are slow moving yet menacing. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Green mountains and deep, shadowed valleys frame the desultory daily routines of the villagers, while the nonhuman population of dogs, chickens and pigs receives a proper and proportional share of attention. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z Ms. Suvari’s Catherine is so extravagantly monstrous that Mr. Huston’s David, who provides a desultory narration, comes across as an inert nonentity. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z Monday’s Gotham Awards, which kick off the season, had a desultory feel. How Can the Oscars Celebrate in Weinstein’s Long Shadow? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z But after 15 minutes of desultory conversation, Brad, a leftover guest, suddenly bursts in from the kitchen, wild-eyed, confused and, save for a sock, completely naked. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Making An Entrance 2012-07-05T16:52:58Z The season has taken on a melancholic, desultory tone with no real tension beneath. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Chloe Lamford's design provides institutional green curtains flapping at the back of the stage, a gym ball parked in one corner and a piano that supplies some desultory notes between scenes. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z “Now let’s give each other a chance,” Biden said Saturday — as if to quickly set aside the divisions Donald Trump sought to exploit over the length of his desultory tenure. Perspective | In Biden victory, a cast change: Out with Richard III, in with Atticus Finch 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Paul’s clumsy pursuit of Lene is as desultory as everything else he does, and as immature. ‘Bungalow’ Review: Young, Restless, Drifting 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z This sense adds a desultory air to the proceedings. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z Rather desultory snippets of film were also projected. ‘Celebrate Asia’ program combines best of East, West 2014-03-22T17:14:28Z A low-key, misleadingly desultory story about love, art and memory, this movie even cites the opening lines from “Swann’s Way,” the first volume of “In Search of Lost Time.” Movie Review: ?Bons?i,? From Chile, Directed by Cristi?n Jim?nez 2012-05-10T22:15:46Z Awash in desultory emotionalism, the play offers a plethora of actors’ moments for its three accomplished performers, who manage — almost — to connect the dots of Shanley’s rambling verbosity. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Denis, who has a seductive visual style, spends a lot of time focused on Pattinson’s skull in “High Life,” which centers on his desultory character, Monte. ‘High Life’ Review: Robert Pattinson Is Lost in Space 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The first half is a long and desultory sit, but in the second, the orchard blossoms exquisitely, speaking not only to the time of its creation, but also to contemporary Russia and more universally, too. Theater Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It currently reigns over an otherwise desultory survey of Mr. Dinnerstein’s art at the German Consulate General near the United Nations. Art Review: Rediscovered at the Altar of Art 2011-08-11T21:34:13Z Despite the handicap of a thin and rather desultory plot, centring on the shady dealings of the femme fatale's boss, it's an enjoyable read, particularly for those familiar with the territory. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Slowly, in my own desultory way, I am still looking. It’s Not You, It’s Men 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z There were also a couple of suits tossed in almost desultorily, the way you might pack something fancy for a vacation, just in case. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z He plays with this formula partly through the unhurried, borderline desultory pacing that’s more common in art-house releases than in genre fare. Movie Review: ‘Headshot,” Directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang 2012-09-27T21:57:00Z There were a few desultory shelves of beer. Nowadays, Paris is for lovers of beer as well as wine. Check out these locations. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Gowns aside, this thing’s a snooze: Events unfold tediously, and there are many scenes in which extras with dirty faces, playing demoralized townsfolk, mill about in a desultory fashion. Review: "The Huntsman: Winter's War" Will Kill You with Boredom 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z I can vividly remember the exquisite boredom of being young in the 1970s, punctuated occasionally by Rolling Stones records, reruns of "Star Trek" and desultory games of pinball. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z The desultory audience is only mildly responsive, and the musicians stalk off stage as if rushing to catch a cab on Ashland Avenue. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z A character is introduced for purely expositional purposes, while Spiegel’s intriguingly desultory dialogue sometimes skews into the sophomoric. Echo Theater's 'Dry Land' pulls no punches in tale of an unwanted pregnancy 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “Square Grouper,” with its jaunty soundtrack, has a strangely larky tone as it skims the surface of these stories in a desultory way. | 'Square Grouper': Adventures in the Drug Trades 2011-04-15T04:23:01Z Chekhov's plays can feel desultory, but there's not a moment in any of his masterpieces in which his thematic vision isn't deepening. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Disappointingly, this shift from a relatively hard-core first half to a second bogged down by desultory dramatic beats significantly lowers the stakes. ‘Against the Ice’ Review: Snow Buddies 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s only so much time you can spend watching well-drawn but stunted characters swilling beer and making desultory gossip about local affairs before you feel the urge to reach for some numbing palliative yourself. Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z Obtaining the clean urine needed to pass the clinics’ desultory random drug tests, however, clearly required more resourceful tactics. Heroin is a white-people problem: Bad medicine, economic rot and the enterprising Mexican town that turned the Heartland on to black tar 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z A quick check of the collections turned up a few desultory wine labels and an empty barrel, but little else. A pioneering California winemaker gets his due from the Smithsonian 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Parts of the last fourth of the novel feel flat and desultory after the excitement we have just been through. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z They move desultorily between characters, art media and periods, and the device of grouping them under such rubrics as Genius, Pride, Revenge and Money is insufficient to create an easy narrative flow. ‘The Art of Forgery,’ by Noah Charney 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The resulting paragraphs can be desultory, full of fascinating but unintegrated information. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z These pitch sessions are desultory affairs - a salesman Andrew is not - and Joyce doesn't help matters by hovering and carrying on in ways that scarcely help her son's cause. Review: The shtick doesn't stick in 'Guilt Trip' 2012-12-18T17:01:06Z It’s too bad the Australian writer-turned-director Julia Leigh wasn’t equally sanctified with “Sleeping Beauty,” her accomplished feature debut, which was greeted with desultory clapping and a smattering of boos. Critic?s Notebook: Paris (and Cannes) in the Spring, Through Woody Allen?s Eyes 2011-05-12T21:13:58Z Hers is a desultory life that probably won’t get much better. ‘New Works by Ron Mueck’ Review: Craft Meets Emotion, Personified 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Remaining subjects in "My Arm" are desultory but reflect different kinds of flawed, raw musicality in speech: an oddly compelling, drunken back-and-forth between two former child actors; brief, angry histories of Seattle's evolution. Review: In On the Boards solo show, Charles Smith explores levels of misunderstanding 2011-03-27T20:17:05Z As Ulrich thinks this thought, he is desultorily wandering the streets of Vienna, ogling a pretty woman. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It was short and goofy and most of all it looked like fun, in contrast to the largely joyless and desultory intros that preceded it. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z As for the Beethoven, perhaps it was the unfamiliar partnerships within the orchestra, or a lack of imagination on the part of Tan, but this was a fairly desultory reading, plagued by synchronisation problems. Beijing Symphony Orchestra/LPO/Tan – review 2012-08-02T15:39:45Z The symphony of noisy New York, reduced for what felt like forever to a desultory hum, seems to be rising in volume every day now. Perspective | Broadway, and the rest of New York’s cultural life, is on the cusp of a vibrant rebound 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z There's a mystery involving the disappearance of O'Connor's character's husband, an environmental activist, but Martin's search for clues is desultory. 'The Hunter': Trapped in a slow-moving but pretty tale 2012-04-19T20:23:07Z It’s focused as much on pub dates, office gripe sessions and desultory stakeout conversations as on tradecraft, and every line of dialogue threatens to turn into a creative insult or a bitter joke. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events. DVDs: Jim Carrey as the Id Unleashed a Bit Before Its Time 2011-02-25T20:14:20Z A desultory ID check by a monolithic bouncer gains one entry. Retro Drinks and a Light-Up Dance Floor in a Brooklyn Bar 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Hours are spent trying to get the right drum sound, and the desultory banging of a single drum contributes to the mood of ennui. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z A widow, she visits her husband’s grave, buys a few eggs on credit at a small grocery and engages in some desultory banter with a group of soldiers. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He cares, in a desultory way, for his bland wife, Myra, and their three children. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Reygadas presents all of this as desultory slices of heightened reality, dismissing narrative flow. ‘Post Tenebras Lux’: Drama’s challenges outweigh rewards 2013-07-25T22:31:10Z Cancellation always hurts, and a handful of desultory think pieces barely numbed the pain. Dear "24": I loved you, but I'm glad it's over 2010-05-25T12:46:00Z The performances are desultory, the musical score bullying and the drama — aside from the game-changing placement of inconvenient shrubbery — as predictable as Tom senior’s steadily sprouting beard. Review: In ‘Tommy’s Honour,’ a Family Feud on and Off the Green 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He tried another bluesy vamp tune, crisp and skillful but desultory. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z In a desultory way I straightened them out. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Spunk and moxie define Winnie, yet for a central character, her thoughts, feelings and interests beyond motivating her desultory new pal are not. ‘Rumble’ Review: He’s Not Ready, but His Coach Is Very Persuasive 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The first hundred pages are largely desultory, though they do create a sense of anticipation. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The only thing I’m sure I learned in my desultory high-school years is the sonnet prologue to “Romeo and Juliet,” which a frightening ninth-grade English teacher demanded I memorize, or else. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Are we breaking ironic ground here, or taking two desultory steps back? The play ‘Collective Rage’: From audience’s perspective, you can say that again 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Dallek said that in contrast to recent presidencies that had “a desultory quality” and “demoralized” the country, President Kennedy’s was still remembered by many for its optimism and Kennedy’s inspirational speeches. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z It’s an easy gig, and Reno takes it, pursuing her own work in a desultory fashion and tagging along with her lover to various galleries and dinner parties. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z The city is simply putting the school back on the market, inviting the usual deep-pocketed firms to suggest yet more desultory office space, hotels for the 1 percent and other dreary things. New mayor’s killing of D.C. cultural project shows only money matters 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Less outlandish but no more appealing are the desultory antics of the visiting New Yorkers. Theater Review: The Amoralists Bring ‘Cheaters Club’ to Abrons Arts Center 2013-08-28T02:00:01Z The Soronprfbs play Jon's town, and wacky coincidences lead to a gig substituting for the group's indisposed keyboardist and a desultory local engagement, which is where Jon gets his first puzzled glimpse of Frank. 'Frank' an offbeat dive through the looking glass of creativity 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z He later took a last, desultory stab at higher education, studying at George Washington University for two years, again leaving without a degree. William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Their desultory attempt to rekindle the flame infuses “Bright Days Ahead” with a piercing sadness that the rest of this emotionally unfocused movie tries to avoid with an almost pathological perkiness. Movie Review: In ‘Bright Days Ahead,’ a 60-Year-Old Woman Takes a Lover 2014-04-24T23:35:20Z “In the midst of a summer of mostly desultory films, along came ‘Clueless,’” wrote The New York Times. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Rather than capitalize on the celebration of an institution that changed the profile of the city over the last century and propose an imaginative future, the Music Center is looking desultory. How David Geffen's gift to Lincoln Center reflects on Music Center 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Scanning the list, I recalled a desultory summer I spent visiting extended family in rural Greece when I was 15. Perspective | What’s the best American novel? A PBS vote is a revealing look at our (limited) taste. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In Albany, we were greeted by an empty, desultory station with a commuter-type coffee place. Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z It’s something he’s fantasized about desultorily in the past, and for some reason he doesn’t stop to think of the possible consequences. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z I followed Doug on a guerrilla trail, one he’d obviously made himself, through a thicket of beach scrub, then into a desultory woods of shore pine and spruce, until we could go no farther. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Okpebholo’s “Romance” — a sensual, desultory evening come to life from a blissful McKay poem — unwound in an aimless but seductive way. Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Without any explanation, the selection feels desultory, designed to show off the artist’s range, rather than her strengths. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z An ensemble warrior dance of the Ewe-speaking people, despite flashes of spirit, was almost desultory in its severity. Dance Review: DanceAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-05-27T22:51:46Z With direction this desultory, even climactic outbursts play like shrugs. ‘What Comes Around’ Review: A Triangle of Power Dynamics 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z But there’s not a whole lot of potent drama, and even though it runs just 90 minutes, the play’s pacing can feel desultory. Review: ‘Kill Floor,’ a Drama About the Beef Dividing a Mother and Son 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “The Canyons” initially appears to be doing much the same, as in a desultory introductory scene set at a bar-restaurant, except that idealism isn’t anywhere on the menu. Movie Review: ‘The Canyons’ Is an Erotic Thriller With Lindsay Lohan 2013-08-01T17:11:39Z Both narrate their lives in similar form — the plot of each novel is as desultory as the narrators themselves, and unapologetically interior. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z After they toiled for a few episodes, it was back to Gilead for them both — back to desultory trips to the market and conspiratorial whispers. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Brutal and Not Much Else in Season 2 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z I’d lately been given to a bit of navel-gazing, soothing myself with an endless succession of herbal cleanses and long baths and limiting phone time in favor of desultory strolls. Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Of course Mr. Oehlen’s impatient brushwork contributes to the desultory mood. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Shunted not, as you might think, for the sake of good jokes or for Sam Raimi-esuqe bloody mayhem, but for scene after scene of loud and desultory talking. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z After lunch Scott and I took a few more desultory laps and called it quits. British Columbia’s Powder Highway 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z On Sunday the dance moves of the grounds crew were rather desultory. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z Yet suddenly, there she is in the midst of the melee, a desultory figure with delicate white skin under a dark hat and veil. A few dozen stops — and even more flights — on the way to my summer’s reading 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Even an extended European vacation would seem desultory without an acquaintance with the myths and legends that animate its culture. In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z It seemed like such a nonpower choice in which to deliver a message about empowerment that it took me aback — even on vacation, surfing the news in a desultory fashion. For Michelle Obama, Girlie Clothes That Lean In 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The plot is desultory; what occurs is talk, plus copious inner musings about family relationships. Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Jagger, and then Mr. Richards, started bands of their own while making desultory Stones albums. Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z I say that because the part about the actual book in question is relegated to the last few paragraphs; and at that is somewhat desultory. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Then a desultory start at an electric, well, a drummer driven, “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The answers to these questions, the tall and the small, are desultory and essentially beside the point. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z But when they lock into short-lived unison routines, the dancing is just as desultory. Dance Review: ‘Hoo-Ha (for your eyes only)’ at Danspace Project 2013-05-24T21:01:38Z But “There Goes Gravity” is an oddly desultory book, often a joyless data dump, padded with long quotations from stale interviews. Books of The Times: Lisa Robinson’s Rock ’n’ Roll Life in ‘There Goes Gravity’ 2014-04-29T20:48:45Z Kareem’s playground, for example, had just a few desultory players shooting by themselves on a recent afternoon. The City Game? 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The couple's desultory conversation swarms with unarticulated meanings. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z But his Sixth Symphony offers an unusually high proportion of true inspiration to desultory noodling. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z And even without Farrell’s privilege, Nate’s path from college to Broadway to a successful screenwriting career is relatively frictionless, which gives some sections the desultory feeling of a light memoir rather than a novel. From Paul Rudnick, a Mismatched Couple but Perfect for Each Other 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But far too much of the six-hour event lacked structure and content, as Jonathan Holmes's woefully disjointed production led the small audience on less of a merry dance than a desultory shuffle through the streets. De Gabay – review 2013-03-04T12:41:12Z The longer the film unwinds, the more desultory scenes become. 'Submarine': Getting below the surface of a teen's life 2011-06-09T20:11:05Z One is lying down napping, two are sitting and smoking pipes and the others, standing and bearing muskets, seem to be engaged in desultory conversation. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The love affair would continue for several years at a desultory pace dictated by the demands of Churchill's main aim: to win the fame and fortune he felt he needed to launch his political career. Winston Churchill, war correspondent: His early military years shaped his political ambitions 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z But there is always more — even in Los Angeles — and so, as his desultory mystery unfolds, he turns his attention elsewhere. Review: ‘Gemini’ Finds Murder in a Movie-Soaked Los Angeles 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Aside from a few bravura scenes here and there, this self-conscious, tricked-up volume consists largely of gruesome anecdotes — which feel contrived for maximum gross-out value — desultorily strung together like ugly beads on a filthy string. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z This is an often desultory novel that the writer David Freeman likened to “the rough draft of a suicide note.” The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z I never caught a glimpse of characters desultorily chit-chatting on a couch plopped center stage. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z A bartender made desultory circuits around the floor. In Baja California, swimming with the whale sharks, and more In what was a fairly desultory and mistake-filled effort throughout, Kearse stood out for the kind of big-play-making that would come to define his Seattle tenure in what was only his 12th career game. Looking back at the Seahawks’ 2013 Super Bowl season: Week 5 at Colts 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z They do nothing but drag us down to their lowest common denominator level of desultory mediocrity, jealousy, mendacity, dishonesty and entropy. Not made by great men: Enter the Little Man theory of history 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z We can certainly imagine a version of “Oppenheimer” that tossed in a few startling but desultory minutes of Japanese destruction footage. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z He’d been in Los Angeles the longest, and even though his career began in a desultory manner and he sometimes supported himself through small criminal enterprises, he’d accomplished the most. 'He had the most beautiful voice': On the Eagles' 'Take It to the Limit,' Randy Meisner truly soared 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Instead of a desultory last-chance tour for the duo of LeBron James and Anthony Davis, he created something that could be way more fun. Bill Plaschke: Rob Pelinka and Lakers win the summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Why not place a bet on Tala Madani, whose desultory drawing and wildly rebarbative conceits might have the impact at the Met that artists like Matisse once had in Paris? Review | The Met is muddling its forays into contemporary art. Again. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Outside, in the sun-baked courtyard ringing the building, a few students wandered around desultorily. Kerala: A ghost town in the world's most populated country 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z On such a desultory evening, you kind of wish that the makeover skills of Christina Acosta Robinson’s Fairy Godmother had been focused more concertedly on the writer’s room. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Bad Cinderella’ gets the title it deserves 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z And he is still clearly rankled by being hit with a fine for what he describes as rather desultory birthday party. Johnson Admits Misleading Parliament Over Lockdown Parties 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “People were missing. Children were missing. Parents were missing. Those left behind filed desultory missing-persons reports, then moved on themselves.” Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z On the night of Mr. Obama’s inauguration, the former speaker gathered at a Washington steakhouse with a small group of desultory Republicans that also included a second-term congressman from California, Kevin McCarthy. From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z New York missed a 58-yard field goal attempt on the final play of overtime against Washington this past week, resulting in a desultory tie. A five-minute guide to NFL Week 14 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Back in ’97, the same year as “Lion King,” I took her to a revival of “Annie” on Broadway that was so desultory that she refused to return to her seat after intermission. Perspective | 25 years on, dad and daughter return to ‘Lion King.’ Cue the tears. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Instead, it heralded a desultory response marked by partisan infighting in Washington and compounded by incompetence in Puerto Rico. Opinion | A storm of red tape and incompetence battered Puerto Rico long before Fiona 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The Seattle Mariners, an expansion team in its fourth desultory season, fired Darrell Johnson in early August 1980 and hired Wills. to bail them out. Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers star, has died 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z In his news conference, Francis appeared in good spirits, as engaged, gregarious and frustratingly vague and desultory as ever. Francis Calls Abuse of Indigenous People in Canada a ‘Genocide’ 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z It might bear little resemblance to the relief corps that started the season, but it’s turning into one of the team’s few bright spots in a desultory summer. Nationals get some relief but can’t halt a slide that hits eight 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Especially for the Mariners’ bats, which barely made a peep as they were held to just three hits in a desultory 9-2 loss to Baltimore in front of 21,615 at T-Mobile Park. After noisy and eventful weekend, Mariners return home to peace and quiet from their bats 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z For two weeks, the dogs have hardly budged, and when they have moved, they’ve seemed desultory, directionless. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z So King came to the camp and fell into its desultory rhythm marked by the white noise of daytime traffic below and moan of the fog horns at night. The last days of a homeless encampment in San Pedro 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet by noon, life continued at its desultory pace as people began to stir in the dozen structures pressed against the guardrail over the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A. Nine months after adoption, L.A.'s anti-camping law is a patchwork of compliance 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z In the half-century since, I made desultory efforts to track her down, to no avail. My Daughter Is Having Sex With Her Best Friend. Must I Tell Her Mom? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z They floundered for five years before hiring McVay, then 30, in a move that transformed the franchise following a desultory debut season in Southern California. Rams’ Aggressive Roster Build Pays Off in Super Bowl Win 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Sunday’s 26-21 loss to the New York Jets was one of the most desultory performances of Jacksonville’s season. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 16: Joe Burrow and Josh Allen shake up the AFC playoff race 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z But the desultory end to the first session of the 117th Congress left few happy. Congress Ends ‘Horrible Year’ With Divisions as Bitter as Ever 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z On London’s busy streets, already twinkling with Christmas lights, some said the new rules seemed to be making a difference, after months in which mask-wearing habits had become rather desultory. Amid Variant Fears, U.K. Discovers Limits to Its Virus Strategy 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The relatively desultory debate was anticlimactic and reflected the exhaustion of a church riven by politics. Opinion | A fragile truce in Catholic bishops’ war over Biden 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Around then, I began to read desultorily about American experiments in communal living — 19th-century utopias, religious communities, hippie communes. Opinion | Does Co-Housing Provide a Path to Happiness for Modern Parents? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The characters on the beach are a desultory bunch. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It is now a beloved Paris icon — remaking what was once a desultory parking lot into a lively cultural hub. Call it the Bubble? Architect Renzo Piano says his Academy Museum is no 'Death Star' 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z But despite those lines, overall turnout appeared to be desultory. Communists, observers report violations in Russian election 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z One drive later, the Giants ran three desultory plays without gaining a yard and punted. Saquon Barkley (and Fans) Returned. But So Did Last Season’s Giants. 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z As an article last year in Newlines Magazine foretold, "Syria appears to be headed into a desultory experiment with herd immunity." Humanitarians push to vaccinate in conflict zones 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z As an article last year in Newlines Magazine foretold, “Syria appears to be headed into a desultory experiment with herd immunity.” Humanitarians Push to Vaccinate in Conflict Zones 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The Mariners appeared headed to a desultory end to one of their longest days of the season as afternoon turned into evening in Chicago Sunday. Mariners impress in winning series against White Sox, but come up just short in Sunday nightcap 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The company’s Lost Arrow Project, which produces tactical outerwear and protective equipment for the U.S. military on a contract basis, has attracted only desultory criticism. Patagonia shows corporate activism is simpler than it looks 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z As natural, and fair, as it was to fixate on the desultory manner in which Harden essentially quit on the Rockets, it was too readily forgotten that he remains an offensive force almost without peer. James Harden Is Headed Back to Houston. Too Bad He’s Not Staying. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z As I would later learn while researching a book on Congress, that same evening a group of about 15 Republican leaders met for a desultory dinner at a Washington steakhouse. America’s first ‘virtual’ inauguration ushers in a transformed era 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Officials standing guard at hospital entrances conduct temperature checks and desultorily take notes, but some visitors can pass through undetected when the guards are tired or have gone for a lunch break. Increased testing needed as Africa sees rise in virus cases 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Many aging former Masters winners are content to show up on their lifetime invitation, play two desultory rounds and call it a weekend after missing the cut. At a disjointed Masters, intrigue awaits with a packed leader board and two-plus rounds to go 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z In the long, desultory debate before Barrett’s inevitable Senate confirmation Monday, few even pretended they were engaged in some historic or noble tradition. Opinion | It’s up to John Roberts to save his court 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z When the season began, that narrative held that Antetokounmpo was the new face of the league while James, after an embarrassingly desultory and disconnected debut Lakers season, was fading fast. Plaschke: LeBron James deserves to be the NBA's MVP. Here's why he has every right to be mad 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z In what may be one of the most skewed Rotten Tomatoes ratings ever, the film received a glowing 88% score from critics and a desultory 3% score from audiences. ‘Cuties’ controversy entangles Obamas as pressure grows to pull ‘child porn’ Netflix film 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Take the story “With the Christopher Kids,” in which a grown brother and sister have just limped their way home to New Jersey for Christmas from their separate desultory pursuits. Review: A millennial after Denis Johnson's warm, damaged heart 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Images of empty seats dominated the coverage, and Twitter folks had a good time meme-ifying Trump's desultory walk of shame back to the White House. Trump wanted a packed house in Tulsa and street violence outside — 0 for 2 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z While Joshua holds the other three recognised belts he lost in desultory fashion last year to his fat controller, Andy Ruiz Jr, before gaining revenge against an even fatter version of the title holder. Sweet-as-pie performance earns Tyson Fury respect as world's best | Kevin Mitchell 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z For eight debates, the Democrats largely tiptoed around disagreements except for desultory disputes about health care policies. Takeaways from the Democratic debate 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1964, after coming into an inheritance that was supposed to have paid $10,000 a month, she moved to New York and began a desultory career as a model. All about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As Art 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The good news for Democrats is that turnout was up in New Hampshire over 2016, a great relief after desultory participation in Iowa. Opinion | The Democrats are still searching 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Outside the market for meat, fish and seafood, from which the virus spread, police officers and security guards sit around, yelling desultorily at passers-by to keep away. Losing Track of Time in the Epicenter of China’s Coronavirus Outbreak 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The Rams mustered only three points in a desultory 10-point defeat. Super Bowl betting lines seems to have settled in 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z After a desultory first half Sunday that ended with Philadelphia leading, 10-3, the offenses for both teams came alive — at least by N.F.C. Eagles Pull Away From Giants, Clinching a Playoff Spot 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z This format allowed for the open-ended answers, stump-speeching and desultory follow-up typical of the forums. Boris Johnson breaks tradition by dodging interview with BBC’s top Rottweiler, Andrew Neil 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Their arms stirred in a luxurious desultory twining. ‘Mouthful by mouthful’: the 2019 Bad sex award in quotes 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z A desultory “We want Drake” chant started up but soon morphed into a “We want Frank” chant. Drake gets booed, cuts short surprise headline set at Camp Flog Gnaw 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Pelé gestured at the desultory scene: “I took my children through the jungle for this? I’m a corpse. I just haven’t started rotting yet.” ‘We’ve been taken hostage’: African migrants stranded in Mexico after Trump's crackdown 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z My favorite tweak is that when you run over an enemy on your horse, you now get a tiny, desultory amount of XP instead of none at all. Dragon Quest XI and Ni no Kuni make the Switch an even better JRPG system 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z That was followed by a desultory 10-7 loss to Arizona State at home - and then last weekend’s 31-10 win at Northwestern. QB situation uncertain for Indiana against No. 25 Spartans 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z That was followed by a desultory 10-7 loss to Arizona State at home — and then last weekend’s 31-10 win at Northwestern. QB situation uncertain for Indiana against No. 25 Spartans 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z A bad loss to the lowly Marlins on Monday was followed by eight desultory innings against them on Tuesday. The Mets Are Eliminated. Now Will Mickey Callaway Survive? 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump gave a desultory speech and shuffled between meetings with leaders from Britain, India and Iraq while privately consulting with aides about his next move against the House. Trump Makes Clear He’s Ready for a Fight He Has Long Anticipated 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This was his moment and his stage — his first game back at MetLife, albeit against the Jets, since the March trade that ended Beckham’s five eventful years as the cynosure of mostly desultory Giants teams. Odell Beckham Jr., in Win Over Jets, Reminds MetLife What He Can Do 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z More importantly, though, they illustrated the chaotic, desultory nature of maritime regulation. Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z A couple of diggers had begun the desultory work of clearing up but the task seemed impossibly daunting. 'Trees snapped like toothpicks': how Dorian laid waste to Marsh Harbour 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Then they played recordings of desultory bird chatter, or of background noise without birds. Squirrels Relax When They Hear Birds Relaxing 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Wearing a tank top and shorts and seated in a storage room inside his desultory restaurant, he flashed a wry smile that showed gold dental bridgework. In a town called ‘Thank God,’ Central Americans’ pursuit of the promised land fades 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z But in going through the paces — and barely acknowledging the immediate crisis in the country that is the president, with his racist rhetoric, inciting terroristic violence — it left me with a desultory feeling. A warning sign for 2020 Democrats: Cory Booker's Philly campaign stop sticks to politics as usual 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z After a final desultory year in Berlin, the Gestapo padlocked the doors in 1933 and the school’s great stalwarts moved on. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Joe Biden, the front-runner in polls, faces pressure to recover from a desultory performance last month in his first venture on the national debate stage since running for reelection as vice president in 2012. Biden and little-known candidates have the most at stake in the next Democratic debates 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z It reveals itself in desultory conversations among British 20-somethings in short scenes that seem at first to be going nowhere in particular. ‘The Souvenir’ review: Young actor shines as love story slowly unfolds 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z And 45 minutes of desultory cardio every other day wasn’t cutting it, even if I do wear an Apple Watch. Perspective | Hark, hear the kettle bells: A personal trainer is helping me find my core 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z But the hours of discussion that preceded the desultory procedural vote marked the most extensive examination of climate change on the Senate floor in years. Senate Blocks Green New Deal but Expends Plenty of Carbon Talking About It 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The essentials: During practices, the girls on the high school soccer team the Wolves engage in desultory, often overlapping chatter on topics ranging from the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge to their menstrual cycles. ‘Friends With Guns,’ cruel girls in ‘The Wolves’ and other picks from L.A’s small stages 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z That progress screeched to a halt Wednesday night with a 101-69 loss at DePaul that earned a place of its own in the ledger of the season’s most desultory defeats. Needing a win, Georgetown lays an egg in blowout at DePaul 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Its desultory plot and muffled despair still feel strikingly modern. Perspective | The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The aerial explosion enveloping the N.F.L. sends teams scurrying for coaches who can mold desultory offenses into the next Chiefs, Patriots, Rams or Saints. How Offense Took Over the N.F.L. 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Trump’s attempt at using his bully pulpit — last week’s Oval Office address — was desultory and ineffective. Opinion | Nancy Pelosi steals the spotlight 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But it was hard for many to overlook the loss of so many big names, and the skepticism seemed reinforced with the desultory 0-2 start. Seahawks Surprise: Comparing surprise seasons in Seattle sports history 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z His campaign vows to fight corruption and shrink poverty resonated deeply in a period of desultory economic growth, rising crime and seemingly unchecked official graft. Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who takes office Saturday, vows a national transformation 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The Patriots entered Sunday averaging 3.9 yards a rush, 27th in the league, and recorded all of 40 rushing yards in their last game, a desultory 34-10 loss at Tennessee. Patriots’ Path to Playoffs Includes a Bit More Tinkering This Time 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The film shows us the beginning of what looks to be a desultory, modest demonstration against Waldheim, who was then running for the largely ceremonial office of president of Austria. Review: ‘The Waldheim Waltz’ examines a chapter from Austria’s past with chilling relevance to today 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Two explanations are offered by men around major league baseball for this desultory trend. Baseball’s Minority Management Problem 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Ruth retired in 1935 after an aborted, desultory year with the Boston Braves. Review | How Babe Ruth ushered in the era of the home run and the sports celebrity 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The Bayern drums were still beating but now in a desultory, almost mournful fashion. Premier League returns, Bayern Munich latest: weekend countdown – live! 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The first two games, desultory losses at Denver and Chicago, certainly validated the camp that feels the Seahawks’ era of dominance has ended. In win over Cowboys, Seahawks show they can thrive amid the Earl Thomas chaos 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet so often he’s followed up signature triumphs with the sort of desultory, self-sabotaging efforts like the start of Thursday’s match, which invite public concerns over his commitment to conditioning and professionalism. Umpire 'pep talk' row is just latest drama in the Nick Kyrgios soap opera 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Most of which is desultory; it's hard to be agitated at something you don’t care about. How I learned to stop worrying and love...well, enjoy...this PGA Championship - Golf Digest 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Even with the considerable organisational power of the party fully deployed, the stadium was far from full, applause was desultory, and hundreds were pouring through the exits before the president’s speech was over. ‘They make promises and do nothing’: a restive Zimbabwe prepares to vote 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “I am an American,” he began to desultory applause. Common struggle: Black Lives Matter leader talks of painful parallels with Indigenous Australia 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In the desultory exchange that followed, the youngest Clinton responded to Roseanne by praising Soros’s philanthropic work with his Open Society Foundations. The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Security guards checked passports and performed desultory pat-downs before waving people inside to vote in an election which is really all about one man. Turks abroad play decisive role in Erdogan vote 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Villaraigosa drew a somber contrast between what he found when he ran for mayor — crowds waiting to greet him, banks of television cameras at every news conference — and this relatively desultory campaign. What Went Wrong for Villaraigosa: A California Stalwart Ponders His Loss for Governor 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z During a tenure as team president that was desultory in nearly every respect, this was Jackson’s single brilliant act. David Fizdale Is Totally Going to Save the Knicks 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Ten years and tens of thousands of deaths later, with the Taliban resurgent, U.S. officials initiated a series of desultory peace talks that petered out in 2012. A Dubai shopping trip and a missed chance to capture the head of the Taliban 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z The ambivalence goes both ways, a reality on display during a desultory rally of a few thousand Socialist voters and their allies in Budapest for the country’s independence day last week. To stop Viktor Orban, Hungary’s opposition parties need to team up. But can they? 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The room’s white walls lacked even the desultory kitsch of hotel art, which I never thought I would miss until it was gone. When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z There’s no doubt that the crowd’s enthusiasm is being noted by the players, particularly those who suffered through last year’s desultory effort. Mike Hopkins has Washington arriving ahead of schedule 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Any they find, however desultory and unrelated to the central premise, become proof of the premise, in this case the premise of a conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russian government. Dossiers and Disinformation 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It was winter; she seemed to spend a lot of time trying to improve his sermons, a desultory cook was giving them black pudding for dinner – and suddenly I was wide-awake. A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Instead, the town’s embattled residents endure a kind of melancholy stasis, punctuated by the desultory boom of another shell finding a target. On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Jefferson was assigned to develop a standardized system, a task he took up with gusto, but Congress considered his proposals only in a “desultory way,” according to a 1973 history published by NIST. Pirates — yes, pirates — may be why the U.S. doesn’t use the metric system 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Cook, a Canadian guitarist and songwriter, brings a Great White North flair to his take on traditional flamenco music on “Hembra,” the uptempo “Skip the Moon” and the desultory “The Toll.” Prophets of Rage and Arcade Fire among artists releasing new music 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The second is what it calls “match analysis,” which places a point in context in a match, with set points receiving greater weight than, say, random desultory midgame points. Enjoy Those U.S. Open Highlights. A Computer Picked Them for You. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z When she makes a desultory attempt at seduction, he doesn’t compliment her beauty but the beauty of Catherine Deneuve, who happens to be on TV. Peter Stamm, looking just beneath the surface 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He was forced to withdraw and, in the two months since, his game has deserted him, including desultory performances at Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial tournament and the US Open. Dustin Johnson: can golf’s world No 1 stay out of the rough? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z But the memory lingers of his desultory final set against Thiem in the French Open quarterfinals. With ‘Nothing to Lose,’ Ernests Gulbis Flashes Former Top 10 Form 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The No. 1 player in the world missed the cut at the Memorial Tournament Friday after two days of him playing the most desultory golf in memory. DJ's busy U.S. Open prep includes early Erin Hills visit after MC at Muirfield Village, birth of second child - Golf Digest 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z He reigned unbeaten for 11 years, winning 22 fights in a row before Tyson Fury upset him in a desultory fight in 2015. Is Anthony Joshua boxing’s next great heavyweight? 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z He didn’t exhibit any interest in Richard’s work, apart from a desultory question or two, offered out of nowhere. “Northeast Regional” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z They’ve proved just the opposite in recent weeks with the botched final seconds against Dallas, the blown 18-point lead in the fourth quarter against Sacramento, and the desultory final quarter against Phoenix. Clippers take their foot off the gas ahead of what could be their last playoff ride together 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z People muttered in desultory conversations and flicked through newspapers. “Signal” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Along with their power coins, the Rangers have been issued one token personal struggle apiece — an estranged dad, a sick mom, a big coming-out scene — all of which are dramatized in stiff, desultory fashion. What a onetime 'Power Rangers' fan turned film critic says about the new movie 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z He said compliance checks at many western banks were desultory, and often little more than “box ticking”. British banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The Rangers’ desultory performance came on the same day that Vigenault was awarded with a two-year contract extension, through the 2019-20 season. Rangers Pounded by Blue Jackets After Vigenault Gets Extension 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z When complaints were filed, investigations were often so desultory that the department “frequently” declined to even interview civilian or officer witnesses. Crime in Chicago and America’s Policing Crisis 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z On that occasion, Morse’s reaction is a desultory shrug. Inside ‘The Front Page’: Pulling off a huge Broadway production night after night 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z But as this season edges closer to merciful completion, Bowles determined that a desultory present trumped the potential future. Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Steady Hand Is Upended in Jets’ Loss to the Patriots 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Dallas has not returned to the title game since the early days of Bill Clinton’s second term, and there has been plenty of desultory football in between. Jerry Jones Is Having a Jerryaissance 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Pete Carroll sounded no alarms after last Sunday’s desultory loss at Tampa Bay. Pete Carroll said Seahawks would bounce back after Tampa Bay loss. Here’s how they routed Panthers. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Kyrgios is not the only perpetrator of desultory efforts this season. Men’s Tennis Wants to Crack Down on Tanking. But What, Exactly, Is Tanking? 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Suspicions that Djokovic was out of sorts or carrying an injury after a desultory press conference on Thursday evening were given substance in a slow start, but he repaired the damage of an early break. Novak Djokovic’s defeat by Cilic opens door for Andy Murray to be world No1 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Either he is no better than the desultory tourist, or he is responsible for the fact that our experiences rarely resemble the advertisements or postcards. What We See When We Look at Travel Photography 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Still, his desultory Wimbledon performance left the tennis world scratching its head. The Electric, Infuriating Nick Kyrgios 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z There weren’t a lot of smiles to be found in the Seahawks’ locker room following Sunday’s desultory 9-3 loss at Los Angeles. Can Jimmy Graham save the Seahawks' offense? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z One imagines that other contemporary Village dweller S. J. Perelman reading it with a wince: where are the desultory dry cleaners and depressed delicatessen slicers in this Pagnol movie version of Village life? Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z I’d been playing for Kingston in a desultory way for several years without ever really feeling attached to the club. Truth, beauty and annihilation: my quest for chess mastery | Stephen Moss 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Competition among the AFPs was desultory, allowing them to keep commissions high. The perils of not saving 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Any headlines should have noted that this desultory effort was Trump’s first stab at participating in anything other than campaign rallies and came 14 months into the campaign. Trump’s campaign shuffle: The problem isn’t who’s working for The Donald — the problem is him 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In the arena, where the crowd appeared to be half-engaged in Trump’s familiar patter, the comment produced little more than a desultory cheer. Why Gun Owners Should Reject Trump’s Call to “Second Amendment People” 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Rodriguez’s last home run in Boston came on May 1, his brightest moment in a desultory season. Rodriguez’s Exit: A Chance for Boston Fans to Deliver a Final Verdict 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Five years ago, his team, mired in years of dubious management and desultory play, averaged 14,767 fans per game, 25th best in the league. For Michael Jordan, a Chance to Speak Up (for Once) 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The best news from this desultory referendum campaign is that Brown’s video has gone viral. E.U. referendum exposes Britain’s political decay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Sitting side by side, they combed desultorily through oddments dusted with memories — his school yearbooks, clippings resurrecting high school baseball feats, a cassette tape of the “Star Wars” Christmas album. Fraying at the Edges: Her Fight to Live With Alzheimer’s 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z It was a familiar role for the speaker: He has become something of a Washington scold, deploring desultory campaigns and ill manners. Paul Ryan Addresses Political Clashes, but Not Congressional Gridlock 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z On Saturday night, Trump had given one of the most desultory victory speeches of his short political career. The savage philosophy of Donald Trump: How he doubled-down on his terrifying foreign policy 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, all of the playlets register as desultory footnotes to a classic. Theater reviews: ‘The Maid’s Tragedy’ and ‘Antigone Project: A Play in 5 Parts’ 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Someone gunned him down and left him in a shallow grave, which points to a logical link between this desultory character and a few missing Utopium-stuffed drug dealers. 'iZombie' recap: Telling fish tales in 'The Whopper' 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Even before she had identified Winston, the police investigation was desultory. Florida State Protects the Brand, but What About the Students? 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Some pages of his letter to The Post are decorated with desultory arrangements of words and phrases signaling that Severance is following the news. Letter from a serial killer: Charles Severance attacks a slain TV reporter, gays, Jews 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z A desultory drive followed, with the Giants gaining 1 yard on three plays. Too Little, Too Late as Giants Squander Opportunity in Loss to Redskins 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z In Mississippi, the token Democratic contender is a truck driver who may partly have won the party’s desultory primary because his name appeared first on the ballot. The outsider 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Arguably, it is their desultory, questing narrative that Wallace continues in his later books, rather than the redemptive one. Why David Foster Wallace should not be worshipped as a secular saint 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z That appears to have continued as the U.S. waged a desultory war against it. America Askew 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Something desultory and jagged haunts all of DeLillo’s bored and articulate characters. Don DeLillo: anatomising the everyday terrors of American life 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Without her to root for or against, the women’s game may well have endured a prolonged desultory period, especially in the United States. Williams Sisters Leave an Impact That’s Unmatched 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z From start to desultory end, Milwaukee offered a case study for all that is wrong with our arena-shakedown age. Bucks’ New Owners Get House-Warming Gift of Public Money 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z While a schoolboy at Winchester College in Hampshire and at Oxford, he was a desultory student but a fervent reader and writer of poetry. Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Oh, he tries to tie it together with a narrative, but the plot is desultory at best. TV Picks: 'UnReal,' 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,' 'Treehouse Masters' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Despite these bright spots, I feel like this was the most desultory entry of all. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z On Monday, the last Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, dined there with Mr. Bush, hoping to soothe lingering hurt over what Mr. Romney’s supporters considered a desultory endorsement of their nominee in 2012. Jeb Bush Draws on Family Dynasty for Fund-Raising Efforts 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The justices' first brush with same-sex marriage was brief and desultory. Participants in gay marriage fight recall victories, setbacks on the way to landmark decision 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The justices’ first brush with same-sex marriage was brief and desultory. Wins, setbacks mark the path to nationwide same-sex marriage 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Nelson Doubleday Jr.’s death on Wednesday is a reminder of how a man born to privilege and extreme wealth can turn a desultory team around by hiring the right people. Mets Under Nelson Doubleday Were a Lesson in Turning Around a Team 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z With a thick, tousled thatch of brown hair and a rumpled olive green corduroy jacket, he has a slightly absent-minded, professorial air, and he wanders desultorily from room to room. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In that book, the narrator, a stand-in for Huxley, moves from jaded libertinism to a desultory stab at guerilla revolution before his encounter with the enlightened doctor saves him. The Woman Who Hooked Hollywood on Yoga 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Giancarlo Stanton and Jeff Baker hit back-to-back homers for the second time in five days, and the Marlins showed lots of life after two months of often desultory play. Benches clear after Lake’s antics; Cubs lose to Marlins 7-3 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Giancarlo Stanton and Jeff Baker hit back-to-back homers for the second time in five days, and the Marlins showed lots of life after two months of often desultory play, beating Chicago 7-3 Wednesday night. Benches clear before Marlins beat Cubs 7-3 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z After the desultory undercard fights, there was a long delay, and a publicist rushed over to press row to explain. Floyd Mayweather’s Longest Fight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Neighbours of a planned project are often consulted in a desultory way, despite legal requirements for notices and hearings. Keep the fires burning 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It is a prediction that even some Yankees supporters, with desultory glances at their shoelaces, begrudgingly acknowledge. Mets Fans Have an Unfamiliar Feeling: Optimism 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I tried shaming them, but that just led to a single, desultory query. Leaders Need To Ask Questions 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z James restored trust in local government after the desultory Mark Funkhouser years, while promoting successful elections to pave more roads, provide stable parks funding and build a downtown streetcar line. Recent Missouri Editorials 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Such episodic and desultory bombing will not stop any determined military force, much less one as fanatical as ISIS. How ISIS Can Be Defeated 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Blatt acknowledged distress over some desultory defeats, most recently one Sunday against feeble Detroit, by 23 points, and another two weeks ago against the Hawks, by 29, both at home. Hawks Spoil Party as LeBron James Turns 30 and Cavaliers Fall Without Him 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Such desultory bombing will not stop such a determined force as the Islamic State. The U.S. strategy against the Islamic State must be retooled. Here’s how. He felt himself “discouraged by life” until the age of 19, when books pulled him out what might have been a desultory existence. Richard Ford: Heart of the Country He writes, for example, about how Johnson could feel “his listeners were stirred only to desultory applause.” Fendall Yerxa, former news anchor, UW professor, dies at 101 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z No garrulous political sweet talk can convince you that, on its present trajectory, desultory Illinois will, or even can, revive the growth that made it great. For governor: The Tribune endorses Bruce Rauner, to revive Illinois 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z That was one of Meyers’ more insightful lines in an otherwise desultory performance, both for him and the Emmys folks. 2014 Emmy Awards: A Fun Party, But Pretty Forgettable The war council proceeded in a desultory fashion until finally a bulletin arrived reporting that the Enemy was most definitely headed straight for Bladensburg, a town just six miles northeast of the Capitol. D.C.’s darkest day, a war that no one remembers The force of the blast causes him to reassess his rage towards his father and prompts a series of seemingly desultory memories. The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer – review 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z No doubt it’s a comfort to Russell that they are here, but their conversation is desultory. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Each attempt ends with a server error and my desultorily trying to glean something from available teaser videos. The Sarah Palin Channel is full of bugs, but maybe that's the whole point 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z People in the charter movement use the word “intentionality” often; very little is done in a desultory way or left to chance. Charter schools’ discipline policy under fire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z During a desultory recent Parliamentary debate on the Scottish independence referendum due in September, Mr Stewart rose to say what many fear. The emotion card 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But after three desultory Rangers losses, including two at home, the Penguins are in control, taking a three-games-to-one lead into Game 5 at home Friday. Rangers’ Recent Struggles Start With the Top Skaters 2014-05-09T02:03:30Z Or you might just scrawl a desultory squiggle to show you're much too busy for such self-indulgence. Is a signature still useful? 2014-05-07T12:03:07Z Somewhat lost in the Bulls' desultory loss to the Heat on Tuesday was Joakim Noah logging just 20 minutes after missing almost the entire preseason with a sore groin. Injury layoff has Noah's timing a little off 2013-10-31T00:24:00Z In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, a desultory robot named Marvin struggles to get through his days. Chronic Boredom May Be a Sign of Poor Health (preview) 2013-07-17T11:40:59.833Z He hid in a burnt-out farmhouse, escaping a desultory search. Paul Soros obituary 2013-06-26T11:13:15Z About 125 miles from Midtown, the mountain is one of the tallest within a desultory conversation’s drive of the city. Orville Slutzky, an Owner of Hunter Mountain Ski Resort, Dies at 96 2013-05-02T00:50:40Z It brought months of desultory talks over a Cyprus bailout to a head when it threatened to withdraw liquidity from Cypriot banks unless its deadlines were met. Cyprus Deal Hurts Credibility All Around 2013-04-12T00:47:21Z But now, even the most desultory and cloned shopping zone in the most provincial of towns will boast five, 10 or 15 eateries, all jostling for business with their exotic offerings. The British vomitorium 2012-12-28T15:55:50Z Tourists huddled on open-top tour buses gazed down at the empty shops and desultory streets. Boxing Day sales: outside Harrods, a circus spectacle but few bulging bags 2012-12-26T15:18:38Z He might have filled some of those empty seats for the league’s most desultory franchise and eked out a couple of more victories than the statuesque Chad Henne. On Pro Football: Tim Tebow, in Jacksonville With Jets, Doesn’t Play 2012-12-10T01:57:49Z After the desultory loss in Utah, everything heated up. For Phil Jackson and Lakers, Days of Futures Past 2012-11-10T17:02:08Z If a song has a deceptively desultory lead-in, I give it 10 seconds or it’s off the list. My Story: Running for the Music (on My Playlist) 2012-10-29T17:15:55Z Second quarter GDP was recently revised downward to a paltry 1.3% growth rate and weekly unemployment claims are a desultory 370,000, far higher than if our economy was experiencing a sudden growth spurt. Statistics Don't Lie, But The People Who Publish Them Might 2012-10-07T13:29:29Z Last year, Gilvezan wrote a novel, Drowned in the Grenadine, dramatizing the desultory afterlife of a former pitchman. Branded for Life 2012-09-27T10:00:33Z “It’s not easy to play after a big effort in Olympics, but I try, anyway,” he said, before being convinced by his desultory performance, “I need time to relax.” Andy Murray, a Gold Medal Winner, Returns to His Day Job 2012-08-09T00:46:39Z Until then, most Washington fans will just be happy to have a baseball team playing meaningful August games — especially in a broiling August of a desultory presidential campaign. Capital Ideas: Why Washington Is Doing So Well 2012-08-04T16:34:05Z After 12 months of continuous unemployment, the typical unemployed worker still searched for a job, but in a desultory fashion, without much hope. Long-term unemployment: the next threat to the world economy 2012-08-02T09:37:31Z It's hard to find a sporting landscape more desultory than this one. Three Washington athletes capture essence of Olympics, could grab gold 2012-07-22T00:58:04Z Although it is only now making the headlines, the mutiny began in a desultory fashion back in April. The tactics behind DR Congo's mutiny 2012-07-11T10:47:38Z Most of the kids wrote for five minutes as required; some of them scribbled a few desultory thoughts and then waited out the clock. A teacher’s perfect moment in the classroom (involving John Milton and John Mayer) 2012-07-01T14:30:00Z If the discussions were desultory, contacts between delegates of over thirty nations were real, and it is these that count. From the archive, 23 June 1960: What's wrong with refrigerators? 2012-06-22T23:06:53Z Going back to a desultory finishing trio of holes the previous afternoon, Woods was eight over for his last nine holes. Tiger Woods 2012 U.S. Open: Lost Weekend 2012-06-19T04:00:00Z For most of the Senate hearing, just two senators — Bingaman and Barrasso — hung around, and after asking the witnesses a few desultory questions, they disbanded about an hour later. Congress turns its attention to... America?s helium crisis 2012-05-13T12:00:00Z Followed a space of open country where they heard the last whispers of a slight and desultory wind. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The breakfast passed in that sort of hurried and desultory conversation which such a dish of gossip as now poured in from all quarters usually produces, when served up at the morning meal. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Still a great deal of desultory and vague information concerning distant lands was floating about society. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z He had only to say "You remember so-and-so——" or "Like that time when——" and conversation sustained itself out of a hundred trifles desultorily familiar to both of them. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The last Crosthwaite saw of her was the destroyer, still afloat, maintaining a desultory fire, although a stationary target for an overwhelming number of hostile guns. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Neither of the sisters used the second person singular: the conversation, which was desultory, like the conversation of travelers in a railway carriage, ended abruptly as if the train had entered a tunnel. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Thus, after a desultory struggle lasting for nearly a century and a half, the Inquisition finally established itself in Germany as an organized body. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z The siege of Castelnaudary was a failure, and a good deal of desultory fighting occurred, mostly to the advantage of de Montfort, whose military skill was exhibited to the best advantage in his difficult position. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z There had been some desultory talk, and the lights had become too much for me, and I had wandered out with Eve into a sort of balcony that had no lights. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z After a few moments' desultory conversation, she announced that she "must run," and as Alys opened the door, Miss Austin turned to the lawyer, who had risen and stood by the stove. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Henry sought to dislodge them, but aided by their elder brother Henry, who had been made duke of Bavaria in 1004, they held their own in a desultory warfare in Lorraine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The campaign was a desultory one, in which little was effected, owing partly to the jealousies of the French officers, who were little more in concord than those of the English army had been. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z So the fight went on in a fitful and desultory way year after year. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The Cayuse War dragged along in a desultory fashion for nearly three years. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Finally she took off her hat and suggested that they knit, and the needles clicked through the desultory conversation until, after midnight, they all attempted to sleep. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Neither side met with much success in the desultory warfare that ensued, and Frederick made peace between the combatants at W�rzburg in June 1168. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Those stores were somewhat desultory, perhaps, but they were gained from every source. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Here, for the present, we draw to a close these desultory notes on the Christian Schools of Alexandria. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Still the enemy kept up a desultory engagement. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z A great peace brooded over Poole Farm—a peace which seemed to communicate itself to the three as they sat enjoying their desultory conversation. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z A desultory warfare was unfavourable, however, to the emperor, who, deceived by false promises, became a prisoner in the hands of his son in 1105. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Some watchful dog, too, caught the sound of horses' feet, and, after one or two desultory barks, set up his tongue into a continual peal. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z For the moment the Boers were surprised at the manner and method of our onslaught, and beyond a few desultory rifle shots our guns fired some few rounds before any shells came back in answer. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z And Marguerite consented to be amused, in desultory fashion, by his stereotyped form of heart siege; even though his powers of attack were no longer sufficient to storm the citadel. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Fowls rambled aimlessly about it, with a dejected yet inquiring air, which seemed to say that they would long ago have given up their desultory pecking if they could have found anything else to do. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z The peace proved unstable, and there was desultory skirmishing in 1161. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z There was only desultory firing and no one was injured. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Margaret’s early impressions of religion had been of a very desultory kind, and here was the root of all the evil that afterwards befell her. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z In the war of posts, of desultory skirmishes, and of raids into the farming country, to which the struggle at the South was reduced, there was indeed little opportunity for Thompson to win laurels. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z While we were conversing in a desultory way, a piece of military music rang out in the distance. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z His father had given him desultory lessons in reading and recitation. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z It belonged to a greater chief than he to give method and order to what would else have been a wild burst of fury, and convert desultory attacks into a formidable and protracted war. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The Englishmen and the Fans confined their energies by day to desultory shooting from the crest-line of the hills. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Gladly would I have tarried to entertain my reader with some of these; but I am admonished of the necessity of bringing these desultory annals to a close. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z The crowd seemed to be watching them, and they spoke now and then to one another in a desultory expectant fashion, from which he judged they were in authority. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Before leaving London we tried, after a very desultory fashion, to pick up a little Spanish. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z An American fleet of whalers scoured the Pacific, and adventurers of the same nation carried on a desultory and inconsiderable traffic in hides with California, in tortoise-shell and mother of pearl with the Polynesian Islands. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z They talked desultorily and brokenly, of her parents and of the revolutionists gathered in Moscow. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z There was little serious opposition, but desultory fighting took place here and there all along the line, and at Montreuil the Cornwalls suffered some serious losses. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z Their interest in geology is confined to the finding of pay dirt, and they look for that in only the most desultory and cursory manner. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z I was possessed of a little fortune, and was a well-informed young man of studious bent, having read largely in a rather desultory way. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z He relieved the tedium of his expatriation by making some researches into Oriental institutions, by founding a literary club at Bombay, and by indulging, in his desultory way, in classical and philosophical pursuits. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Xenophon's Anabasis, Homer, and some desultory selections from other authors were supposed to give a sufficient knowledge of Greek literature. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z If a wolf pack could ever appear desultory, this is what it would look like. Scientist at Work Blog: A Band of Boy Wolves 2012-03-08T13:16:34Z They talked in a desultory way until they had dressed. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z There was a desultory patter of riflery behind him, but except for that he could hear very little, and he pushed on with the water rising rapidly to his waist. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z These remarks, I am fully aware, have been desultory and digressive, but they were designed to be rather suggestive than satisfactory; and experimental knowledge will, I trust, more than compensate you for my conscious deficiencies. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Hitherto, in the desultory fashion of his boyhood, he had dipped into many authors, yet he really knew nothing thoroughly and well. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Traveling without a female this time of year would make any pack desultory. Scientist at Work Blog: A Band of Boy Wolves 2012-03-08T13:16:34Z After that my lady composed herself anew, and the day wore on, in desultory conversation and a grim kind of picnic. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Soon they return; the scene is repeated; and this desultory skirmishing is often continued for many days. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z This Buzzard does not breed on the pampas, where I have observed it, but appears there in the spring and autumn, irregularly, when migrating, and in flocks which travel in a loitering, desultory manner. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z How can we expect them to develop the great principles of the gospel in a well ordered life while they are dependent on desultory oral instruction for their entire knowledge? The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z The troubles at Chester are of slight significance; they were doubtless merely the continuation of desultory warfare in the upper Irish Sea. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Encountering nothing on his march except a desultory fire from scattered parties, Arnold entered New London, and proceeded to burn the shipping and warehouses near the river. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Several pairs frequent a small area, and sometimes they unite in a desultory flock; but these gatherings are not frequent. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Of this Epping Forest I knew, as most men do, something from hearsay and from desultory reading. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The hap-hazard and the desultory are avoided not only altogether, but, to analysis, quite obviously. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Piracy continued in a desultory way throughout the eleventh century; but it showed little vigour after Canute's accession to the Danish kingship. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z There are amusing passages in the story, but it is too desultory to rank with Defoe’s best. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Truths had slipped out in the desultory talk which weighed down the souls of all. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Some such desultory speculation as this may serve to soothe the mind of an evening at Ipswich—not that after motoring all day the mind needs much soothing. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z This much in defence of my desultory essay. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The applause and cheers which had heretofore broken out in desultory patches of the galleries and platform, broke in a simultaneous, thunderous outburst from every part of the house. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z This is all very irregular, gentlemen," interposed the Judge Advocate; "the character of a witness can not be impugned by what is mere desultory conversation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z In the weeks that followed the bombardment became more and more desultory and ineffectual. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Rose made sure a repeat of Wednesday's desultory effort against the 76ers in Philadelphia didn't occur, posting 31 points, 13 assists and several back-breaking and breathtaking shots. All-Star Rose scores 31, Bulls top Knicks 105-102 2012-02-03T03:39:00Z There were, she could now see, signs that somebody had made a desultory attempt at building a wall which was nearly buried again. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z He was speaking to a young girl whose name he did not know, a desultory acquaintance made during the twelve hours which he had passed at the hotel. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z After some desultory remarks, the Captain drew a visiting-card from his pocket, wrote a few words upon it, and handed it to his young hostess. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Being a delicate child, my education was somewhat desultory. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The people in a desultory curiosity flocked around the Stadholder's palace and the rooms of the Estates. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z The conversation was desultory, sometimes upon literature, at others upon art; and at two more intellectual dinner-parties I have seldom been present. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Then he examined the eggs, and pulled out some silk from round the dead larva, and investigated it all in a desultory manner, asking of me all I knew about the insects. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The second day after the outbreak of insurrection passed with no greater excitement than occasional and desultory firing from the front. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z We exchanged half a dozen desultory sentences, and then relapsed into that intimate silence which is only possible between real friends. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z They knew what all this desultory business meant. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z The young ladies seemed so completely taken up with one another that, after a little waiting, the gentlemen fell into a desultory talk, and grew gradually nearer to the window. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z After a short period of desultory guerrilla warfare the rebels were effectually quelled and the work of reorganization began. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z With daylight came a slackening of the night-long Insurgent thunder, which slowly dropped away to desultory firing, and then to complete quiet. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z But what Pitt means by his allusion to 'desultory jaunts,' and 'hovering about London,' and conduct 'too imprudent and restless or as too mysterious' for him to be connected with it, we cannot now conjecture. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The Broncos’ desultory 7-3 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday would have ended their season if the Oakland Raiders had defeated the San Diego Chargers. Chiefs 7, Broncos 3: Broncos Lose to Chiefs, but Win A.F.C. West 2012-01-02T02:24:24Z There had been almost annual skirmishes between the border villages, in which the chiefs took desultory interest, but in this war the issue lay between the chiefs themselves. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z That too was taken up in a desultory fashion and quickly relinquished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The fighting at that time in our part of the country was desultory—a matter of skirmishes only. Why Lincoln Laughed 2011-12-29T03:00:17.037Z Couples stroll under pools of lamplight, while the park drive pulses with the footfalls of runners, the whir of cyclists and the desultory clop of horse-drawn carriages. As Crime Falls, Central Park?s Night Use Grows 2011-12-28T16:26:24Z When the last engagement on our right had calmed down to exchange of desultory shots, D. H. Hill’s division was waiting to know if Anderson would need further support. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z Consider for a moment how many centuries must have passed before the desultory native mind became impressed with its regularity. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Had he continued to work at lyrical writing after his first volume, he might have avoided falling into the desultory method, which marred his later work, and left a really large body of first-class poetry. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Seattle U, after leading most of the first half, seemed on the verge of another desultory loss when Dollar, the Redhawks' third-year coach, received a technical foul with 8:45 left. Virginia barely avoids the upset to Seattle U 2011-12-22T06:00:57Z My reading was wide, but desultory, as I had read more for entertainment than for instruction. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Ord’s command was not up till near night, and he only engaged with desultory fire of skirmishers and occasional exchange of battery practice, arranging to make his attack the next morning. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z Laying a check upon his thoughts, he resumed a desultory conversation with Jessie, though he betrayed himself several times during it, and at length she let him go. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Much of Mr. Russell's writing, in mathematical and philosophical fields, is above the head of the desultory reader; but so stimulating a paper as this one should not be neglected by the moderately inquisitive amateur. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z I flatter myself that readers will be found to appreciate the brilliant, though prolix and desultory, portraiture of life in Venice during the last century which these "useless memoirs" offer to their imagination. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The case seems to have been in the same court which tried Guido for murder eight months later, and probably continued in a desultory fashion all summer. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z These divisions deployed on the right and left of the turnpike and posted their batteries, which drew on a desultory fire of artillery, continuing until night. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z This, I thought, was the explanation of his miscellaneous reading; for he was always methodical, never desultory. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z They continued to listen for a considerable time to the roar of the cannonade, which presently ceased, and the desultory firing was again heard. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z A small knot of men had gathered in the room, and a desultory kind of chat was going on when Thomas entered. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z After breakfast the company began to disperse in a desultory manner by installments. A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z There was not much talk between the two friends while dinner lasted, and what there was took a desultory and aimless turn. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It was mid-afternoon before they got within range of her, and she was still drawing slowly along with sails that bulged and flapped in desultory catspaws. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Even in this extremity the gallant blacks turned again and again on their pursuers, pouring in desultory volleys or hurling assegays, which cost the conquerors many a life. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z The education of the children was certainly desultory 50 and insufficient; but it was inspiring, and brought out their powers. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Dancing was of the desultory order, but what was lacking in vigor was made up in continuity, for it seemed there was never rest, stop, nor intermission to the programme. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z They work well enough, are light and active, but always stop to talk—don't keep up a sort of desultory talk over their work as our men do. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z The education he received appears to have been rather desultory. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Mem da Sa's nephew appeared with a considerable fleet, and after a desultory campaign of a year the French were obliged to retire. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z We frequently find much that looks like devotedness, but which, in reality, is but the desultory activity of a will not brought under the powerful action of the word of God. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z For a short time, therefore, he engaged in teaching school; and, after a few years spent in desultory but unceasing study and reading, he began law in the office of Wm. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z He knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The young man was not all this time merely seeing life, he was recording it in desultory fashion. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z North of St. Roque the Portuguese so far had done nothing except make some desultory voyages of observation, though they claimed the coast to and beyond the mouth of the Amazon. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z Finding his companion idle he prodded him in the back with his foot, with the result that the man gave a few desultory strokes. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z His name was Gavin Kingscote, and he was an artist of a casual and desultory sort, having, I believe, some small private means of his own. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z During this contest, which was carried on in a desultory fashion, Frederick drew his chief strength from southern and eastern Germany, and was supported by the full power of the Habsburgs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z So even as they fell due to the Fed's intervention, investors were receiving payouts that didn't seem desultory. Fed Wants to Bet the House, Again 2011-10-21T20:06:39Z A last desultory campaign followed in 1659—the twenty-fifth year of the Franco-Spanish War—and the peace of the Pyrenees was signed on the 5th of November. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z It will render school attendance desultory and variable, because unpaid for, and always to be had for asking. Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada 2011-10-14T02:00:23.300Z Riddled and torn, they drop in desultory fashion, their faded yellow not at all like the satisfying gold of beech and hickory leaves. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z At the time when his desultory studies in natural history concentrated themselves more and more on physiology, at that time the cleverest physiologist was a young realistic student, Thomas Rendalen, somewhat older than Edward Kallem. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z My manner of life at that time was desultory and unsettled. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z In 1793 the Sardinian army and a small auxiliary corps of Austrians waged a desultory mountain warfare against the Army of the Alps about Brian�on and the Army of Italy on the Var. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z I wish Rose had warned me that Podbury's habit of mind was so painfully desultory. The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z It was one of our old-time silent meals, although we talked in a desultory manner, while the slippered servitors were in the room. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z To you let me plan a first step toward preventing desultory voice practice. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Rifle fire, up till then desultory and unnoticed, began to increase in volume. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The desultory arrangement, the light 139 and lively style, the extensive but not always too accurate erudition, and the somewhat captious and quibbling objections, are intensely Voltairian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Thus ended the first stage of the Thirty Years’ War, although some desultory fighting continued between the League and its opponents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Having thrice circled over the hostile position with contemptuous indifference to the desultory fusillade, it returned towards its base. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z With this as a preamble, turn to the pupil who is by himself to avoid desultory practice. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z She had taken to reading as she had never read before, in a way at once desultory and omnivorous. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z But whatever may be the general value of De l’esprit, it is full of acuteness, though Thomas. that acuteness is as desultory and disjointed as its style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Standing in the market-place to be hired will occur to any one who may take the trouble of reading these desultory observations. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-03T02:00:27.757Z Beyond the desultory movements of a couple of Turkish sentries there was little sign of activity. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z This then which the old teachers watched for years, was intangible, and to watch it to-day and to try to form singers by manipulating so subtle a thing, produces wastefulness, and desultory practice. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Picking up a volume he found there one morning, Robert continued a desultory conversation by saying: "You don't read Montaigne, do you, Cousin Sudie?" A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z It may be called the Bible of the 18th century, and contains in the germ all the desultory philosophy, the ill-ordered scepticism, and the critical but negatively critical acuteness of the Aufkl�rung. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But it was not only this desultory, unrecognised service, however frequent, however great, that women rendered to the spread of the Gospel in its earliest days. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z After some desultory fighting Henry IV. was taken prisoner and compelled to abdicate; he had, however, escaped and had renewed the contest when he died in August 1106. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z That is, to the idea of a practical mind, desultory voice study. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z He was greeted warmly and seated himself to engage idly in the desultory conversation which was going on. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z He had waited in a desultory fashion, not really hoping that she would come. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Ike pretended that he did not want to sleep, but, after an attempt at desultory talk, his eyes closed and he soon became oblivious to his surroundings. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z He frequently gives incidents of Mohawk women who were waylaid and scalped or captured by desultory bands of Mohegans and other tribes with whom they were at war. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z The fighting which followed was decidedly desultory and without important results. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z After that sortie the night was passed in desultory firing; at daylight it was announced that a number of Turks were standing near the castle, waiting till men were sent out to negotiate. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The quiet has been broken only by the sibilant song of the boiler, by desultory conversation and bursts of gunfire as spasmodic and inconsequent. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed, and still the riflemen to the east kept up their desultory, but harmless firing. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z The consequence is that souls are scattered hither and thither, some persuing a desultory course, others living in isolation, all at fault as to true Church ground. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z |
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