His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors.
In a few cases the police have launched desultory investigations but little more, perhaps because its chiefs are part of the political elite that stands to gain from the violence.
The two Palestinian factions, bitter rivals for years, have made various desultory efforts to settle their differences.
Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like timebitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.
The watery sunshine rested on the walls in blurred and desultory gleame.
It was sad that we had only a desultory array of groceries to work with, but each night I would spend hours conjuring magic from a limited universe of ingredients.
We proceeded to make the world's most desultory small talk, interrupted by every new arrival, each one necessitating a fresh discussion about who was on and who wasn't.
The three brothers and the sister sat round the desolate breakfast table, attempting some sort of desultory consultation.
Though his wealth allowed him a desultory life, he was “driven and motivated by his goals, ” as a relative put it.
Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.
We are talking, in a desultory kind of way.
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