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reputation for seriousness; he wrote that Galsworthy abominated desultory conversation, and when he and his wife were entertaining dinner guests he would...55 KB (7,000 words) - 18:57, 22 November 2024- (Afar) coast: But the arrival of Ali Shermárki shortly changed this desultory conversation to weightier matters. This worthy old man, sheikh of the Somauli...16 KB (2,124 words) - 11:44, 24 November 2024
. the custom of the Catholic priests . . . was, after a little desultory conversation, to ask if there were any Catholics present and that was all. In...30 KB (4,093 words) - 04:26, 5 October 2024- police had been searching the waters earlier. After a few minutes of desultory conversation, Clapp broached the subject of the search efforts for the doctor...13 KB (1,771 words) - 17:46, 6 May 2024
- album—"Patterns", "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall", and "A Simple Desultory Philippic"—also appear on Simon's first solo effort, The Paul Simon Songbook...23 KB (2,237 words) - 16:01, 19 October 2024
simplest Lute, Plac'd length-ways in the clasping casement, hark! How by the desultory breeze caress'd, Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover, It pours...32 KB (4,619 words) - 14:11, 24 July 2024- wandering up and down this labyrinthine house, meeting people, having desultory conversations, and never fully fitting in or getting into close contact with...28 KB (4,264 words) - 10:16, 4 October 2024
by the neck like dogs." According to Clawson, after an hour of "desultory conversation… of which the vilest accusations were laid against the "Mormons...31 KB (3,690 words) - 19:17, 25 October 2024- "The actuality of children's lives – the long daydreamings, desultory conversations, desultory play, is very rarely dealt with in children's books." After...26 KB (3,263 words) - 05:40, 20 November 2024
- château in the south of France with his young wife, Liz. The conversations are initially desultory until Porbus suggests that Frenhofer might want to paint...8 KB (745 words) - 22:26, 19 October 2024
- languorous afternoon floating on the river behind the Cambridge colleges; a desultory cricket game between masters and servants; the daily routine of college...28 KB (3,391 words) - 10:49, 30 October 2024
- pretty Cot: our tallest Rose" 1795 1796, October Religious Musings. A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most...64 KB (582 words) - 21:24, 22 October 2024
- " Publishers Weekly considers this a "little gem of a book" the pace desultory, which works well, as "Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor...13 KB (1,775 words) - 13:12, 7 October 2024
- incomplete, dimly seen, unrealized scenes in the rehab center, and then desultory talk about offscreen AA meetings. But the film is preoccupied with gossip;...15 KB (1,426 words) - 06:04, 18 October 2024
The King of Clubs was a famous Whig conversation club, founded in 1798. In contrast to its mainly Tory forerunner The Club (established by Samuel Johnson...15 KB (2,215 words) - 15:02, 1 August 2024
verification][full citation needed] Her reading seems to have been extensive, but desultory. For doing this, she had singular advantages in her personal intercourse...32 KB (4,573 words) - 20:09, 25 August 2024- Letteratura Italiana del Settecento (Bari: Laterza, 1949) Lindsay Waters, "The Desultory Rhyme of Don Juan: Byron, Pulci, and the Improvisatory Style", ELH, Vol...18 KB (2,412 words) - 01:53, 17 November 2023
and a gathering of armed bands to his standard. After some delay and desultory fighting, he and his uncle, Azam Khan, occupied Kabul in March 1866. The...32 KB (3,833 words) - 19:36, 10 October 2024
"Simon Says" 1959 Tom & Jerry 2:29 Tom and Jerry recording "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" 1966 Parsley...16 KB (377 words) - 20:42, 14 September 2024- alterations." Within the album’s sequence, the song follows "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)", which is...9 KB (980 words) - 10:47, 22 November 2024
- the world with a pleasant carelessness,’ amusing everybody by his desultory conversation and abundance of good-natured anecdote. He was a great favourite
- departed, desultory chat, speculations about land and sea, talk about being and non-being, the ascetic Gotama refrains from such conversation. Gautama
- tragedies...the trivia of human lives, the ordinary events and the desultory conversations that are the stuff of many dramatists, are almost entirely absent