On arrival in Jakarta, desultory passport inspectors may keep him waiting in line for an hour.
The two Palestinian factions, bitter rivals for years, have made various desultory efforts to settle their differences.
The Santiago summit will still happen, and probably launch the talks, but their progress will be desultory.
HDNet is woefully lacking programming, offering a desultory assortment of shows ranging from college football to documentaries on female Pueblo Indian potters.
Wurman relishes the role of onstage impresario, tossing free hats to the audience, needling latecomers and rambling about his past successes in between desultory interviews.
Desultory talks had taken place between the two companies in 1995.
It brought months of desultory talks over a Cyprus bailout to a head when it threatened to withdraw liquidity from Cypriot banks unless its deadlines were met.
Big, crazy parties were the quintessential New York event in the sixties, just as real-estate closings are now, and, at times, life in the Factory was an endless, desultory bash.
Australia's over rate was desultory - Ricky Ponting announced that he would play for the win, but his team failed to bowl the statutory 90 overs in an uninterrupted day.
The Federal Reserve chairman, speaking in Germany on Friday, left open the door to new interest rate cuts as U.S. retail sales data offered a desultory view of the American economy.
Subsequent research, although desultory, showed that 60% or more of depressives respond often dramatically to a night of sleep deprivation, and that the transformation of mood usually occurs in the latter half of the night.
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Complaining how dreadfully hard she has always found it to put words on paper, Ms Bedford looks back on the desultory years of false starts and failures, of self-confessed hedonism, sloth and doubt.
We arrive by ferry, unaware as yet of what pleasures await, from the windswept and singularly unpromising mainland harbour at Geyikli Yukyeri - home only, it seems, to two desultory cafes and a wide assortment of stray dogs.
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