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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...

(Afar) coast: But the arrival of Ali Shermárki shortly changed this desultory conversation to weightier matters. This worthy old man, sheikh of the Somauli...

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...

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...

. 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...

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...

by the neck like dogs." According to Clawson, after an hour of "desultory conversation… of which the vilest accusations were laid against the "Mormons...

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...

"The actuality of children's lives – the long daydreamings, desultory conversations, desultory play, is very rarely dealt with in children's books." After...

wandering up and down this labyrinthine house, meeting people, having desultory conversations, and never fully fitting in or getting into close contact with...

languorous afternoon floating on the river behind the Cambridge colleges; a desultory cricket game between masters and servants; the daily routine of college...

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...

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...

incomplete, dimly seen, unrealized scenes in the rehab center, and then desultory talk about offscreen AA meetings. But the film is preoccupied with gossip;...

" 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...

Groovy)" – 1:40 7. "The Dangling Conversation" – 2:39 8. "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" – 2:12 9. "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert...

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...

in concluding, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated, although the desultory Papa: Hemingway in Cuba makes one feel as if both can be accomplished...

verification][full citation needed] Her reading seems to have been extensive, but desultory. For doing this, she had singular advantages in her personal intercourse...

"open-hearted" music had been replaced by "an archly ironic dance-rock that feels desultory and numb – verging on autistic". Q felt that it lacked the "fun" of Daft...