Sentence examples for are desultory from inspiring English sources
adjective
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; without logical sequence.
- He wandered round, cleaning up in a desultory way.
Life lessons in the script (partly by Noah Baumbach, Mr. Stiller's "Greenberg" director) are desultory, but a late twist is surprising.
They could do so by preparing sanctions against the president and his circle to be applied if violence is used against the protesters and by dispatching a special envoy to press both sides to take seriously what so far are desultory negotiations.
Efforts at censorship are desultory.
Yet its preparations have been desultory.
Conversation is desultory, to say the least.
Real time, sadly, is desultory enough.
Egyptian flags were for sale, but business was desultory.
The mood was desultory and the food failed to excite us as it had before.
Companies' profits are growing sharply (though admittedly they were desultory before).
In fact, however, the practice was desultory, and the results were mechanical and poor.
The turnout at the opening session of the conference was desultory.
