desultoriness

Whether that relative desultoriness will make a difference remains to be seen.

What is desultoriness?

The "but" lingered in his mind, though, even as they talked, with increasing desultoriness as they climbed through the dark, scented forest.

De Quincey more than once revels in grotesque and arabesque terrors, though with a desultoriness and learned pomp which deny him the rank of specialist.

Halsey, a young American who idolized the great explorers of the past, chose to record his expedition in logbook style, with its inherent dangers of desultoriness and plodding.

In the titles of his work, and in its extreme desultoriness, La Bruyère reminds the reader of Montaigne, but he aimed too much at sententiousness to attempt even the apparent continuity of the great essayist.

And despite the desultoriness of the affair as a whole, there are sure to be magnificent individual efforts, eulogies to the deceased season's genuine charms: a run to daylight by Emmitt Smith, a touchdown bomb by Jim Kelly.

For Watkins, there followed three-and-a-half months of hippie desultoriness, most of it spent taking care of a farm that was near Big Sur and whose owner had picked up the hitchhiking youth before going on to Hawaii.

Scientists do not yet know whether the cowardly lions make up for their desultoriness in some other way - say, by being better hunters or better milk producers - or whether the laggards in fact are sponging off the majesty of their peers.