Sentence examples similar to desultorily apparent from inspiring English sources

We spend our winters cycling desultorily.

Not every endorsement ends so desultorily.

The monarchy favoured modern manufacturing and, more desultorily, modern finance.

The three wandered desultorily down University Place for a few blocks.

The stage doorman desultorily looked up from his paper.

He took back the book and began to flip desultorily through its pages.

In the meantime, Beethoven had written the three final piano sonatas (1820 22) and had worked desultorily on the symphonic sketches.

A bandleader gazes at the baton that she just tossed desultorily into the air.

Apparent suicide.

Hardin talked somewhat desultorily to reporters while pulling his wheeled attaché case to a waiting car.

But where is the "thrill of acquisition" in a book as desultorily thrown together as The English Civil War?