They tend to live in trailers and work desultory jobs.
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His end with the Mets six years later was desultory.
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Slowly, in my own desultory way, I am still looking.
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Even before she had identified Winston, the police investigation was desultory.
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A desultory ID check by a monolithic bouncer gains one entry.
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He reinjured his hip and lost a desultory match to Nadal.
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And his retelling can feel desultory at times rather than modest.
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Of course Mr. Oehlen's impatient brushwork contributes to the desultory mood.
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Kyrgios is not the only perpetrator of desultory efforts this season.
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It was all part of a desultory day for the Knicks.
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It could not have been more desultory and perfunctory, the discussion.
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"Dating-wise, we were in a desultory spot," Mr. Davar said.
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Competition among the AFPs was desultory, allowing them to keep commissions high.
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Monday's Gotham Awards, which kick off the season, had a desultory feel.
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Desultory teams want The Next Mahomes, but what if there isn't one?
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The resulting paragraphs can be desultory, full of fascinating but unintegrated information.
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The new stadium, in contrast, has too often had a desultory vibe.
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Those left behind filed desultory missing persons reports, then moved on themselves.
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Gregorius, 27, was a rare bright spot in the Yankees' desultory 2016 season.
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And the dispiriting day of desultory baseball led the Yankees right into — what else?
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Then they played recordings of desultory bird chatter, or of background noise without birds.
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Two explanations are offered by men around major league baseball for this desultory trend.
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Nowhere to be seen was the "American carnage" hellscape that dominated Trump's desultory inaugural address.
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The plot is desultory; what occurs is talk, plus copious inner musings about family relationships.
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Yet in the end, it's no more gratifying than a desultory session at the Lionel.
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It's a far cry from the remorseful and desultory state of existence he currently lives.
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At a downtown Zhengzhou mall, Wang Li watched as a few desultory shoppers wandered by.
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About 800 people showed up in Lincoln Park, wandering around and listening to desultory speeches.
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" GORDON CHARLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES, NEW YORK "This is a desultory market at the moment.
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One of her dogs greets the visitor at her farm's entrance with a few desultory barks.
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After a "desultory" conversation on the amendments, they were referred to a committee of 11 men.
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" GORDON CHARLOP, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES, NEW YORK "This is a desultory market at the moment.
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Now he wanted Showalter back even if it meant shunting Torre to a desultory desk job.
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But the memory lingers of his desultory final set against Thiem in the French Open quarterfinals.
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Cloud Computing ran a desultory race, dropping out of contention down the backstretch and finishing eighth.
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The Fall toured constantly through its four decades, playing sets that could be spellbinding or desultory.
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With his star power and influence diminished after a desultory performance on the presidential campaign trail, Gov.
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Meanwhile, the sanctions imposed in March have been enforced in only a desultory fashion, trade experts said.
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Rodriguez's last home run in Boston came on May 1, his brightest moment in a desultory season.
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The staff can be a bit desultory, too, although I found this more charming than off-putting.
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Though many acquaintances credit him with being charming, he can also come across as remote and desultory.
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It was a Monday night, the crowd was sparse and the innings piled up in desultory fashion.
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Getting into Mexico was easy — a simple security scan and a desultory document check and we were over.
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"In the midst of a summer of mostly desultory films, along came 'Clueless,'" wrote The New York Times.
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Strong winds kept the desultory crowd out of the scenic pool area and clumped awkwardly in the lobby.
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Here, she imagines a desultory job interview that seems to be taking place — figuratively or maybe not — underwater.
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Without any explanation, the selection feels desultory, designed to show off the artist's range, rather than her strengths.
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But if news from CES feels especially desultory this year, it might not be the show that's at fault.
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Their ventures abroad have been mostly desultory, and prognostications that they will challenge American giants internationally have not materialized.
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But as this season edges closer to merciful completion, Bowles determined that a desultory present trumped the potential future.
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The only discernible action the administration has taken based on its desultory investigation has been to pass the buck.
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Think of your desultory raking as a way to feed the trees, as an investment in the urban forest.
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The largest centre-left party, called Blue and White, has run a desultory campaign plagued by infighting and gaffes.
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During a tenure as team president that was desultory in nearly every respect, this was Jackson's single brilliant act.
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A bad loss to the lowly Marlins on Monday was followed by eight desultory innings against them on Tuesday.
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He didn't exhibit any interest in Richard's work, apart from a desultory question or two, offered out of nowhere.
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But this year, the poachers work openly during the day, some wearing balaclavas, apparently undeterred by desultory government patrols.
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The stress on the desultory, punctuated by antic gestures from Lopakhin and the servants, makes the first act agonizingly long.
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In "Vivre Sa Vie," Ms. Karina played a desultory beauty who drifts into streetwalking on the way to cinematic sainthood.
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Europe's immigration and refugee policies could be astonishingly generous, but its integration and assimilation efforts were generally desultory or reactive.
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Since 2014 he has had desultory conversations with the opposition, through Unasur, whose secretary-general, Ernesto Samper, is sympathetic to chavismo.
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But there is always more — even in Los Angeles — and so, as his desultory mystery unfolds, he turns his attention elsewhere.
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Here, the lackluster prose, while much clumsier and more confusing than the original Spanish, suits the desultory social landscape it describes.
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This astringent yet oddly desultory book, a curio from a very good writer, more resembles, for good and ill, an anchovy.
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The Legislature's commitment to improving schools and preserving the environment (much less providing protections from climate change) remains desultory at best.
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He heard the desultory, pre-meeting conversation, saw the department chief stride in ten minutes late with his smile of circumstance.
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The desultory commitment of 2,000 troops is just big enough to get in trouble, and too small to make a strategic difference.
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Their season has been so desultory that Ellsbury's ability to hit a catcher's glove has been a rare instance of Yankee exceptionalism.
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It is all rather amusing in a desultory way, but to little effect beyond a casual mix of flippancy and good humor.
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It was a familiar role for the speaker: He has become something of a Washington scold, deploring desultory campaigns and ill manners.
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Not loving this Chris Christie rhetorical device of suggesting political opponents belong in prison Desultory is our word for the day, ladies & gentlemen.
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For the second consecutive night, long stretches of the program were desultory, and the convention floor emptied out well before the speeches ended.
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Frosted (5-1) looked unstoppable in winning the Met Mile and the Whitney Stakes before putting in a desultory effort in the Woodward.
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The room's white walls lacked even the desultory kitsch of hotel art, which I never thought I would miss until it was gone.
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Marsch insisted that his absence — the assistant coach Chris Armas took over preparation duties — did not lead to the Red Bulls' desultory performance.
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Later, as Carol smokes and makes a desultory attempt at cooking, Anna (Celeste Arias) appears to her left, in a separate hospital scene.
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As a means of imposing order on his desultory existence, Brooker started a Web site, which he vowed to update every two weeks.
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He later took a last, desultory stab at higher education, studying at George Washington University for two years, again leaving without a degree.
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Five years ago, his team, mired in years of dubious management and desultory play, averaged 14,767 fans per game, 25th best in the league.
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Gone are the days when a recorder and a few desultory "hey nonny nonnys" would suffice for the musical passages in a Shakespeare production.
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Trump has been president for more than a year now, with NAFTA talks proceeding in a desultory way unrelated to any actual policy change.
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Its mock-desultory title includes a period that gives it an air of finality, but flexibility and openness are part of the show's DNA.
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A model's desultory gaze on a torn-up fashion ad beckons fulfillment at the cost of agency, the pharmacopornographic pact of 2002's Demonlover.
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This should also have a desultory effect on iron ore as well, which has spent the past five months trading in a fairly narrow range.
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Behaviors are closely monitored, transgressions (notably masturbation) are punished, and desultory sexual relief is provided by the staff (notably a maid played by Ariane Labed).
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Either he is no better than the desultory tourist, or he is responsible for the fact that our experiences rarely resemble the advertisements or postcards.
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One is lying down napping, two are sitting and smoking pipes and the others, standing and bearing muskets, seem to be engaged in desultory conversation.
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But the hours of discussion that preceded the desultory procedural vote marked the most extensive examination of climate change on the Senate floor in years.
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After they toiled for a few episodes, it was back to Gilead for them both — back to desultory trips to the market and conspiratorial whispers.
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In spite of her desultory M.O., Eisenberg has somehow managed to produce one of the most original and accomplished bodies of work in contemporary literature.
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It's said that she had to leave her son in his father's desultory care when she accompanied her employers on a weeklong vacation in Rajasthan.
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They were pursued, and desultory fighting was carried on until three o'clock in the afternoon, when it ended in the complete success of the Revolutionists.
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At Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., the previously unbeaten McCraken yielded possible favorite status at the Derby with a desultory showing in the Blue Grass Stakes.
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It was short and goofy and most of all it looked like fun, in contrast to the largely joyless and desultory intros that preceded it.
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The list of American runners and bikers and skiers who have doped is long and desultory, although there is no evidence that this is state-directed.
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Denis, who has a seductive visual style, spends a lot of time focused on Pattinson's skull in "High Life," which centers on his desultory character, Monte.
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In a first, the Jets gathered as a team, instead of in groups, to watch video of their last game, a desultory 30-14 loss Sept.
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One detects in Ferris, a former ad copywriter, a freelancer's unanticipated nostalgia for the communalism of gossip by the copy machine and desultory Nerf ball tossing.
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The Rangers' desultory performance came on the same day that Vigneault spoke of being awarded with a two-year contract extension, through the 2019-20 season.
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But their complaints drew a desultory response from the industry, so Baker organized residents, who filed a number of lawsuits against the unresponsive Army and against Monsanto.
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And despite some desultory efforts to curb the practice in the Obama years, much used and surplus military hardware finds its way into the hands of police.
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In August, 2017, a desultory storm named Harvey lumbered across the Yucatán Peninsula into the Gulf, where it gathered only enough strength to become a tropical depression.
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The Proustian faith in memory—that it binds us to the past, that it gives a sense of unity to our otherwise desultory lives—has been shaken.
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The desultory affair no doubt is a sign that those who argue American diplomacy is dead, or at least dying, are not too far off the mark.
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It's a desultory existence for Keith (the appealing McCaul Lombardi), a young man living with his dad in the Baltimore neighborhood that gives this movie its title.
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So often we feed our perceptions through the desultory sausage maker of race, and Newton's postgame performance is being treated on Twitter as a referendum on such questions.
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The performances are desultory, the musical score bullying and the drama — aside from the game-changing placement of inconvenient shrubbery — as predictable as Tom senior's steadily sprouting beard.
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My favorite tweak is that when you run over an enemy on your horse, you now get a tiny, desultory amount of XP instead of none at all.
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But as he turns around, he is confronted with his current career, all the grinding in practice, the desultory garbage time burn in a loss to the Knicks.
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The romance, in particular, feels desultory, and if any chemistry does develop between Mr Segel and Ms Mara's characters, then it is of a singularly chilly and invisible variety.
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A year after going 4-12, a desultory season that produced sweeping changes in the coaching staff, the front office and the roster, the Jets had returned to relevance.
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The sun had long set on the Empire by 983, when Team GB collected a desultory 15 medals (with just one gold), good for 36th place in the standings.
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Its 3.4m inhabitants got so much less, in such desultory fashion, with such horrible consequences, that the storm has rekindled a painful debate about the island's relations with America.
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But the play and its desultory rhythms are a gift to its actors, many of whom have been doing sterling work, particularly at the Irish Repertory Theater, for years.
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Yet as in much of this show — which is choreographed by Avihai Haham — the staging feels distracting and oddly desultory, as if the cast were still awaiting fuller instruction.
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The second is what it calls "match analysis," which places a point in context in a match, with set points receiving greater weight than, say, random desultory midgame points.
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Mr. Trump gave a desultory speech and shuffled between meetings with leaders from Britain, India and Iraq while privately consulting with aides about his next move against the House.
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They fear that if they pass nothing, their base will destroy them, and they fear that if they pass the desultory quarter-measure they've concocted, the country will destroy them.
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But a great deal hasn't, and it seems likely that the result will be the same as 1991 – that is, the confirmation of Kavanaugh after a desultory and incomplete investigation.
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Perhaps the most telling moment of the entire speech came at the end, when Trump offered a desultory announcement of new sanctions on North Korea: I appreciate everything you've done.
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Most of the play is set in 1967, when Aaron, a New York writer with a desultory career, reverse-commutes to Levittown, Long Island, to teach an adult-education class.
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All of this happens to echo the kind of desultory rationalization heist movies often cough up to allow their characters to comfortably be cast as good guys as well as thieves.
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Possibly a migrating wren had noticed the nest and made a desultory effort to destroy it, but there are no house wrens nesting in Middle Tennessee; he was sure of it.
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The team's successes have been hard-fought, Formiga said, its wins coming despite a lack of grass-roots resources and a desultory commitment to training and facilities for women in Brazil.
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The Patriots entered Sunday averaging 22 yards a rush, 215th in the league, and recorded all of 33 rushing yards in their last game, a desultory 23-21 loss at Tennessee.
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After desultory sex with Deirdre, the Agricorp executive, and the realization that he hadn't noticed that his son, Henry, was a math prodigy, Philip got the real punch in the gut.
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The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches toward usability, there's little guarantee that it's available in a way that makes it useful to anyone.
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That final dismal and desultory line, nothing more than a light dusting at best and pitiful sprinkle at worst, is accompanied by a horrifying moment of shamefaced revelation: you've fucked it again.
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I mention this because it is the best way to describe the way in which, over three days in March—including one long, desultory Saturday night—I read Bleachers and Calico Joe.
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Vance's desultory attention to high school, which would have been an economic death sentence for him without some extraordinary lucky breaks, was the norm for factory-bound kids not so long ago.
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We already know that Tillerson, Perry, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, and Haley barely give enough of a damn about climate change to come up with a desultory bit of obfuscation.
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A single desultory village serves as hub for these 30 square miles of rolling farmland and evergreen forest bisected by two-lane roads, where passing motorists give each other a little wave.
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On Wednesday night, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had a lengthy, desultory back-and-forth on health care that could have greatly benefited from the presence of Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.
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And then, having polished off these desultory points, he inquires into the intellectual scene in our own time, now that the "great Parisian luminaries" are gone — the scene in Paris, that is.
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Not as the term is generally understood in the culture, although the final judgment and God's dreadful fiery vengeance would at least have prevented a few desultory 24-point losses to the Bucks.
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Now, obviously, there's a tiny little part of me that sort of begrudgingly, very begrudgingly, wants to offer them at least some desultory praise for having the balls to, y'know, invent a language.
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But even as the prime minister has lost the support of her party, her Parliament, and her people, her political fortunes have remained buoyed by the misfortunes of a divided and desultory opposition.
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The January trade of Josh Smith to the Rockets, half a year after signing him away from the same team, held to all the conventions of the Clippers' more desultory on-court spells.
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Though the artist statement indicates a great deal of thought put into the materials and their application, the overall aesthetics are somewhat desultory, and one struggles to see where the materials budget went.
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While Democrats traditionally see desultory turnout in off-year elections, for example, voter participation shot up in February's Delaware state Senate election, which allowed Democrats to keep unified control of the state's government.
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One imagines that other contemporary Village dweller S. J. Perelman reading it with a wince: where are the desultory dry cleaners and depressed delicatessen slicers in this Pagnol movie version of Village life?
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It was a desultory affair at times, but it did feature a Nets team that is climbing in the standings with surprising speed, in contrast to the Knicks, who are hurtling happily downward.
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My mother became Hasidic when I was 12, after years of only desultory High Holy Days observance (my parents were divorced), and I was sent to yeshiva high school and Orthodox summer camps.
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An estimated 223,2455 soldiers and volunteers are dug into sporadic trench lines, desultory garrisons and improvised fighting positions that run along both sides of the conflict — so called because neither government has declared war.
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The first half is a long and desultory sit, but in the second, the orchard blossoms exquisitely, speaking not only to the time of its creation, but also to contemporary Russia and more universally, too.
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When she makes a desultory attempt at seduction, he doesn't compliment her beauty but the beauty of Catherine Deneuve, who happens to be on TV. Needless to say, the spark fizzles and she goes home.
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From the looks of the desultory sex we just witnessed — Ray comes, Marnie doesn't, Ray picks up his well-worn copy of A Little Life and gets to reading — they won't be boning for long.
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If you're someone who found the recent Twin Peaks reboot to be somewhat desultory, you know that living up to the promise of a Lynchian experience is a tall order, even for David Lynch himself.
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This was his moment and his stage — his first game back at MetLife, albeit against the Jets, since the March trade that ended Beckham's five eventful years as the cynosure of mostly desultory Giants teams.
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In the offices of a tech company in some West Coast loft building, Jason and Justin, two impossibly young-looking techies, are having a desultory conversation after finishing their 10th Ping-Pong game of the day.
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That desultory number, though slowly increasing, makes clear that, for all the technology's upsides in performance, design, and environmental impact, consumers remain skeptical of the high prices and limited range that come with a charging cord.
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The drama present in the ninth inning was lacking for much of the night, which to that point had been marked by another desultory performance by pitcher Nathan Eovaldi, who was shelled for a fifth consecutive start.
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The title character, played by Thomas Middleditch ("Silicon Valley"), returns home from work on his birthday and has a desultory conversation with his live-in fiancée, Rachel, who went the entire day without getting out of bed.
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By day's end, a majority of House members had come out in favor of impeachment, and Trump was conducting a desultory news conference, during which he behaved like the kind of "low energy" politician he often mocks.
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"Queen & Slim" is about a black man and a black woman — we don't learn their real names until the very end — who, following a desultory first date, get caught in a traffic stop that goes hideously wrong.
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At the Columbus Circle outpost, which opened in April, the rest of the menu is a bit desultory, like a fine-enough kale and arugula salad littered with quinoa, and balls of yuca and cheese, hard and dense.
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Frugal Traveler After a week of downloading and trying out various travel and navigation apps, I reached an unfortunate conclusion: Most of them are worthless — clunky, buggy, seemingly desultory efforts by developers rushing a poor product to market.
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Throughout Fukushima, there are large cylindrical plastic sacks — each roughly the size of a hot tub and weighing about a ton when full — stacked in desultory heaps by the side of roads, near driveways or in abandoned lots.
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At Ishkhani, a 45-minute drive from Yusufeli in Turkey, an ancient cathedral, rebuilt in the ninth century by Sabas, a disciple of St. Gregory of Khandztha, is being restored in a desultory, and not entirely convincing way.
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The Nets—who saw their early experiment in Brooklyn with aging, former Celtics champions go bust—rank No. 7 on Forbes' list, worth an estimated $1.8 billion despite finishing 11 games back of that desultory Knicks team last season.
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In the memoir sections, Skidelsky languidly lays out his desultory youth (county-level tennis player, Doc Martens-wearing rocker) and upper-crust education (Eton, Oxford) through an early-adulthood bout with depression and a difficult time with his girlfriend.
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It's a strange thing to have to say about a movie that gathers a group of glamorous women together for what is essentially a giant scam involving a diamond necklace, the Met Gala, and some desultory revenge on an ex.
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There have been some desultory (not to say desperate) attempts at populism, like "Monkey: Journey to the West," which shamelessly courted Asian audiences; struggled to approximate a Cirque du Soleil spectacle; and ran for three long, disappointing weeks in 2013.
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He certainly tried to win the case, but he was so confident in his station and the sturdiness of double standards that he became complacent, assuming that a desultory smearing of Pollard as a "wanton" and "experienced woman" would be enough.
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Despite the desultory speeches — the rabbit holes he goes down, the errors he makes, the funny or sad stories he tells, the large volume of information he crams into answers — Biden continues to hold a solid lead in the polls.
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Romine was in the lineup in place of Gary Sanchez, who had a desultory game behind the plate Friday night and moved to designated hitter in place of the slumping Matt Holliday, who could be headed to the disabled list.
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In the midst of another desultory season and with barely enough healthy players to field a team, Grinnell announced last week that it had canceled the remaining seven games on its schedule out of concern for the welfare of its players.
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And some of those vying to lead the Democratic National Committee, sensing where the energy of the party was, made a beeline for Houston's airport on Saturday night after appearing at yet another desultory candidate forum at yet another hotel.
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The South Korean government conducts emergency drills only five times a year, and they are fairly desultory affairs that last about 20 minutes, with people hunkering in buildings or stopping in their cars on the roads after sirens go off.
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First selfies of herself in the hotel room, then pictures of the models in the dresses that just the other day had been here, in the closet, looking forlorn and desultory on the plastic hangers, now sparkling in the Italian sun.
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CA DOJ will use every legal tool at its disposal to defend today's national standards and reaffirm the facts and science behind them #EPA #CleanerCars It is signature Trump: a crude sledgehammer to regulations, with only desultory gestures at justification.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil prices ended with full-year losses for the first time since 2015, after a desultory fourth quarter that saw buyers flee the market over growing worries about a supply glut and mixed signals related to renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran.
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What had begun as a desultory day for the Yankees, with the trade of Andrew Miller to Cleveland for four prospects, deteriorated further as the last-place Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep with a 5-3 victory at Tropicana Field.
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She interweaves this invented book with her own so that the two texts and the two journeys — one by car, meandering and almost desultory; the other speeding forward with the almost locomotive propulsion of suspenseful fiction — seem on their way to a collision.
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These are tales where society itself is predatory, where all sex is desultory and transactional, where memorials to victims of terrorism have drugs pumped into the air so visitors know what they're supposed to feel, where there's no worse dystopia than the heart.
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He will get where he's going, which really is the thing he wants most—more than the points for the team or even himself, more than whatever desultory congratulations he'd get if he can somehow force his way through and pull this thing off.
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With the same stew of hope, despair, shame and perverse pride endured by the long-suffering fans of a long-losing team, Kureishi's readers have stuck by him even as he churns out, with dismaying industry, a series of leaden farces and desultory intrigues.
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In Local Color, an atmosphere of marital malaise in white-flight bourgeois Manhattan, like the early scenes of DeLillo's Players, is the backdrop for "enough [plot] to choke a horse," as Rappaport put it: incest, desultory affairs, twins, sucide, dreams and visions, a knife and a gun.
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Even when Bortzutsky seems intent on relentless parody of the engaged poem, setting desultory tones and adding smart-ass comments that would seem to operate practically as nasty rejoinders to the scrupulous witnessing exemplified in, say, a poem like Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem," he gets his intended effect.
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Burdened with a litany of disastrous performances over the past two Finals, the mercurial shooting guard suddenly rose from the ashes like a magnificently neck-tattooed phoenix in Cleveland's 235-24 win on Wednesday before quickly falling back to earth in a desultory Game 23 loss.
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The 31 pieces of personal reflection and cultural criticism collected here appear chronologically, opening with a 1994 essay about reading the Bible during a "pretty desultory" spell of born-again Christianity at age 21, and closing with a 2016 review of Nabokov's letters to his wife.
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In other footnotes, Tuten steps back from his early self and gives the reader a wide-angle shot: There was little to show for my six years of writing because I worked in a totally undisciplined, desultory fashion, in fits and starts, in moods exultant and despairing.
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Ehud Barak, who beat Netanyahu in the 1999 election made a desultory attempt to conclude Oslo at Camp David, but the failure of those talks was followed quickly by the second Palestinian Intifada — and then by the election of another Oslo-rejectionist, Ariel Sharon, early in 2001.
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Instead, they probe one another's hearts, souls and sore spots the way we all do with our co-workers, in fits and starts, by making desultory small talk, by not letting on what's really taking place inside, until gradually intimacy grows and friendship blooms (and perhaps withers, too).
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A few weeks later, when Governor Christie brokered a meeting at Trump Tower between Mr. Trump and governors from around the country, Mr. Trump offered a desultory performance, bragging about his poll numbers, listening passively as the governors talked about their states and then sending them on their way.
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Rust Belt cities have taken hard times on the chin; as a bicoastal interloper, I've learned through long exposure that complaints about anything, from the ravages of late capitalism to the ungodly hot summer weather, will generally be met by native Midwesterners with a desultory shrug and a "that's life," attitude.
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That's right, the huge park you've been going to once a summer since you moved here—for a dismal afternoon of hummus, blackcurrant cider, and desultory chat about which Buzzfeeder writer makes you laugh the most—will now cost you and your mates £50 a head to get inside. Wicked!
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In spite of these desultory habits, I did, in years past, at least tuck the flower beds in for winter — cutting back the dried stalks of perennials, composting the remains of annuals, tugging out the weeds I'd ignored all summer, installing a deep layer of mulch to keep everything safe from the cold.
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Most people are treated to the same things: stops at socialist-realist monuments and vast, empty squares; cavernous state-owned restaurants serving desultory meals (fried fish, mounds of shredded cabbage), and a brief ride between two stations on Pyongyang's metro — the only real brush with North Koreans that most visitors ever get.
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That is both a statement of fact and a comment on my typically desultory talent at handicapping the Derby, which even for the savviest horse-pickers is a feat astronomically more complicated than the already difficult skill of picking a winner in, say, a middle-of-the-week feature at your local racetrack.
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He covers, among other things, A Tribe Called Quest's beginnings in Queens; its involvement in the Afrocentric rap collective Native Tongues; and its nadir in the late '90s, when the visionary energy the group brought to bear on its first three albums dissipated into something that started to sound dutiful and desultory.
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The rejection of interest served as a continuation of a desultory December for Steinbrenner, the former Yankees owner who died in 2010 — he was rejected by the Hall of Fame's Today's Game Era committee for induction on Sunday, and the Yankees recently lost out in the bidding for the top free-agent pitcher Patrick Corbin.
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A surprising focus on Senator Marco Rubio's shiny, stack-heeled ankle boots, first noted in a desultory Twitter post on Monday by a New York Times reporter, has grown over the last few days into one of the weirder firestorms of the presidential campaign, with rival candidates and the news media adding tinder to the flames.
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Four plays later, a humdrum 543-yard field goal by kicker Josh Brown, making his season debut after a one-game suspension for an arrest on a domestic violence charge, gave the Giants a 16-13 victory, a fitting end to a desultory game that will nonetheless buoy the spirit of a franchise coming off consecutive 6-241 seasons.
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If one adds to this the long periods that he left the chairmanships of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities empty, his desultory picks for other important cultural positions, his choice of a librarian of Congress who doesn't come from the tradition of the belles-lettres or serious scholarship, his record on culture is dispiriting at best.
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C.C. has no answer to the goombahs who make him a lowball offer for his golden goose, so he salves his ego by bragging about his business acumen to the other pimps and exorcises his powerlessness by treating Lori to one last desultory sex session — one in which he treats her like a cheap prostitute, rather than the queen worthy of an extremely well-done porterhouse steak.
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How did a sharply dressed insurance agent with a desultory love life, who preferred brothels to relationships, who held crappy middle management jobs before retiring early due to poor health, become, as his one-time lover Milena Jesenská puts it, a "clairvoyant" storyteller, let alone one with a still-unrivalled capacity to take readers deep into the cold core of what it means to be alone and to be human?
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Although the state has only two seats out of 20143 in the national Parliament's lower house, the Lok Sabha, elections here are a reliable source of journalistic tchotchkes: the arrival of an electronic voting machine, in the snow, at the "highest polling station" in Luguthang village or the somewhat overcooked tale of intrepid election officials braving jungles and trekking "six kilometers over uneven terrain" to set up a polling booth for a single desultory voter.
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Don Edler presents cartoonishly chunky chairs in pastels muted by an application of surf wax, but the piece that held my attention was "Anthropocentric Tablet and Chablet Tair" (2017), involving one of his curious seats placed beside a nearly 10-foot-square, gray tablet hanging on a wall and covered with markings reminiscent of the Rosetta Stone; a desultory collection of objects is embedded in its surface, including an iphone, ping pong paddle, credit card, and sunglasses.
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A desultory skim is worth your while, though, as you'll learn, say, that El Patio is "a top Havana restaurant" to this day, or that "Les Apaches de Belleville" inspired "a rather violent Jazz Age dance, in which the partners cuff each other around and melt into a concluding waltz," or that, less whimsically, Zelda's brother was also mentally ill and his suicide resulted in a "new defeatism" on his sister's part, or so her worried husband saw fit to inform a doctor.
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For all its revelations, Letters in the Dark preserves – and perhaps magnifies — the mystery about the flesh-and-blood man How did a sharply dressed insurance agent with a desultory love life, who preferred brothels to relationships, who held crappy middle management jobs before retiring early due to poor health, become, as Milena Jesenská puts it, a "clairvoyant" storyteller, let alone one with a still-unrivalled capacity to take readers deep into the cold core of what it means to be alone and to be human?
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