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Usage for desultory


Does the desultory showing of both Kim Clijsters and Caroline Wozniacki mean that the tour is foundering? Is the tour rudderless, adrift in a sea of mediocrity, or is this a time of exciting new players on the cusp of stardom? ...

In truth, we deal out our thoughts, facts and arguments in that irregular and desultory way in which we acquired them. We are no regular built scholar--have pursued no "royal road to mathematics," nor to anything else. We have, by observation and ...

Paul, a blocked, desultory writer, lives with his second wife and two young daughters in the Welsh countryside. His wife refurbishes antique furniture and does most of the other hands-on work of the household, while he both values and chafes against ...

The suit, which followed the death of 29 workers at a Massey mine in West Virginia, was one of several shareholder actions Massey was facing at the time, and it proceeded in a fairly desultory way for several months. Meanwhile, under pressure from both ...

This, after a second half in which Drew posted a desultory batting line of .231/.318/.421/.740 in 2010. But now, the white-hot anger directed at Drew for much of his career because of his five-year, $70 million contract appears to have been replaced by ...


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