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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

After the only competent leader had been snatched from the Christians by an angry fate, the weakness and desultoriness of the others had destroyed the fruits of conquest.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

He went back to the ‘Red Lion’ with the manner and movement of a man who after a lifetime of desultoriness had at last found something to do. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

Not that she felt particularly hungry; but there is a certain desultoriness allowable at table more than elsewhere, and which suited the hither-thither movement of her conflicting feelings.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

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