Sentence examples similar to a desultory undertaking from inspiring English sources

Given by the painter to Charles in 1629-30, it honors the king's commitment to peace: like his father, James I, he stayed out of the Thirty Years' War, and although he undertook a desultory war with Spain after the failed marriage negotiations, he brought it to an end in 1630.

But what was, only a decade ago, a desultory campaign against the disease now looks like a determined assault.

It was a desultory discussion, however.

Bennett mimics a desultory, bored clap.

At IMD in Switzerland it is a desultory 12%.

This sense adds a desultory air to the proceedings.

Its a desultory route getting there.

All they manage is a desultory fart in the mist.

Things started to go south quickly, however, with a desultory loss to Penn State turning into a string of desultory losses.

The mother pursues a desultory affair with a pornographer.

Inside Valhalla, a desultory crowd of invited hundreds milled.