Hall's authority came from his citations, a mass so large that "desultorily" can hardly describe the intensity of his collecting. ❋ Unknown (1993)
Apparently, even when St. Vlad was ordering breakfast, muttering in his sleep, desultorily shifting the surface-clues in alphabet soup or gasping shamed urgencies in Vera's ear ... etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I've just been home, desultorily knitting and walking the dog, and I haven't accomplished nearly what you did while making a transatlantic trip AND attending a lovely 3 day party/family reunion! ❋ Jean (2009)
One day four months ago, I was sitting at home desultorily scanning job boards and e-mailing resumes, when the phone rang. ❋ Naomi Cohn (2011)
In that jaundiced reportorial frame of mind, sitting in the press compound at Bristol, desultorily I watched a woman shepherd a young man in a wheelchair onto the gym floor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jefferson recalled that Henry “said the strongest things in the finest language, but without logic, without arrangement, desultorily” 390, and yet, it seems, very effectively. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)
Raja Jai Singh dreamed desultorily of a small chattri to cover his ashes when he died, here by the banks of the river, the jalis of the chattri filtering the cool breezes from the Yamuna. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)
The next morning, almost desultorily, the generals had sent sorties toward the fort to assess the battlements and scout locations for mines. ❋ Indu Sundaresan (2010)
Ordering a few leaves and poking at them desultorily does not constitute sharing a meal. ❋ Unknown (2010)
HANNITY chuckles desultorily and pulls out a tray of cookies shaped like snowmen, candy canes, crucifixes, firearms, coat hangers and bright-orange cookies shaped like gingerbread men. ❋ David Kronke (2010)
They never got a real blaze going, and the pile was still sputtering desultorily as dawn began to break. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)
Around me perched on the uncomfortable chairs (how does Helen Thomas sleep here?), wedged in with battery packs and backpacks spilling BlackBerries and spiral notebooks, are a few of the visiting press conversing desultorily in Spanish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was a year older and had a BB rifle with him, shooting desultorily at trees, cans, fence posts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The doctor gave a soft clap of his hands and desultorily asked how I had slept. ❋ William James Henry (2010)
In the hopes of inciting a feeding frenzy, Mitch Leisen took a lamb carcass and costumed it, then chained it to the ground, but all the lions did was desultorily lap up blood. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)
I wander around the house, picking up clutter and setting it down somewhere else, desultorily play a song or two on the piano, just pounding the notes mechanicallybeneath my fingers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
