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  • image layout frameless Desultorily article on "desultorily", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "desultorily" You can also: Search for Desultorily in Misplaced Pages... 382 bytes (0 words) - 03:52, 27 December 2015
  • Thumbnail for DesultoryDesultory Desultory was part of the first wave of Swedish death metal bands, alongside Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed and others. Into Eternity, their Metal Blade... 3 KB (312 words) - 19:15, 2 December 2024
  • image layout frameless A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Originally... 7 KB (863 words) - 22:57, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hellenistic periodHellenistic period Theban and Athenian army at the Battle of Chaeronea after a decade of desultory conflict. In the aftermath, Philip formed the League of Corinth, effectively... 154 KB (19,477 words) - 19:23, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorLeopold I, Holy Roman Emperor interference brought on a war with the Holy Roman Empire, which after some desultory operations really began in 1663. By a personal appeal to the diet at Regensburg... 38 KB (4,100 words) - 11:21, 25 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Habsburg SpainHabsburg Spain Habsburg forces. England now entered the war and occupied Jamaica. The long, desultory and weary struggle effectively ended at the Battle of the Dunes (1658)... 105 KB (14,159 words) - 21:07, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nine Years' WarNine Years' War took Ebernburg on 27 September, news of the peace brought an end to the desultory campaign, and both armies drew back from one another. In Catalonia, however... 115 KB (14,727 words) - 16:57, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Outer HebridesOuter Hebrides of Stuart's attempts to control the Outer Hebrides were then at first desultory and little more than punitive expeditions. In 1506 the Earl of Huntly... 97 KB (10,334 words) - 15:26, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles DickensCharles Dickens He did not consider it to be a good school: "Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality... 181 KB (19,264 words) - 16:27, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Civil serviceCivil service Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that "the... 62 KB (6,483 words) - 10:41, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Billie HolidayBillie Holiday years and I was shocked at her physical weakness. Her rehearsal had been desultory; her voice sounded tinny and trailed off; her body sagged tiredly. But... 128 KB (13,724 words) - 08:23, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for 1984 Canadian federal election1984 Canadian federal election the end of Social Credit as a viable national party. It would make a desultory final appearance in 1988 before collapsing altogether in 1993. The satirical... 44 KB (3,519 words) - 06:35, 15 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Boney M.Boney M. lure of the local disco – a miniature Gomorrah where the kids dance in a desultory fashion to the sounds of Boney M. Kisyk (26 January 2011). "Тюльпан" ... 44 KB (5,081 words) - 21:49, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thebes, GreeceThebes, Greece proved itself formidable (see also: Sacred Band of Thebes). Years of desultory fighting, in which Thebes established its control over all Boeotia, culminated... 34 KB (3,674 words) - 18:49, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for William GibsonWilliam Gibson he enrolled at the University of British Columbia (UBC), earning "a desultory bachelor's degree in English" in 1977. Through studying English literature... 134 KB (12,073 words) - 19:23, 18 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for CebuCebu There were 15 localities over the whole island, on both coasts; some desultory mining had been carried out Naga near Mount Uling, but most serious operations... 145 KB (16,377 words) - 04:30, 22 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Turing machineTuring machine deterministic mechanical rules slavishly (or as Turing puts it, "in a desultory manner"). More explicitly, a Turing machine consists of: A tape divided... 73 KB (9,420 words) - 19:50, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tom WaitsTom Waits idiosyncratic American style ... The music is bony and menacingly beautiful, the desultory electric-guitar solo as cold as the rattle of marimbas in 'Clap Hands'... 131 KB (16,524 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for John GielgudJohn Gielgud though this is not clear at first. The two elderly men converse in a desultory way, are joined and briefly enlivened by two more extrovert female patients... 99 KB (12,328 words) - 18:02, 13 January 2025
  • image layout frameless Battle of Zama at the other and then withdraw. Lazenby describes these skirmishes as "desultory". Hannibal then ordered a charge against the Roman infantry by his 80... 65 KB (8,402 words) - 08:45, 21 January 2025
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