Example Sentences

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It's hard to convey the sheer desultoriness of our music teaching at my secondary school.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2010

It was snowing with a fine-flaked desultoriness just sufficient to make the woodland gray, without ever achieving whiteness.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

What strikes us in his course of study is its desultoriness and its comprehensiveness.

From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume

Some of the most useful people I know are people who not only think least about being useful, but are ready to condemn themselves for their desultoriness.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher

The same Celtic desultoriness characterized all the rest of his life, though it could not thwart his genius.

From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington