He was still house hunting in a fairly desultory way.
In a desultory way I began to look, and one day I found it.
Their conversation drifted in a desultory way from one unimportant subject to another.
He was watching the water in a desultory way when suddenly his attention focused on a large silent shape beneath the surface.
Conversation pursued its desultory way on topics of personal, but limited, interest for a while.
The Mexicans looked at our baggage in a desultory way.
They waited for more than an hour, slumped in the car, talking in a desultory way.
So speaking, she went across to his bookshelves and began looking in a desultory way among his books.
The two of them talked in a desultory way about the weather and other such morning things.
He made no particular move while she ate, but stood leaning against the bedpost, talking in a desultory way.
