After leaving Oxford without a degree, he made an attempt to study law, but desultorily and unsuccessfully; he had no steady income and spent large sums on books ( he was a lifelong collector ).
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Although the puzzle posed by the two brains and the huge band of fibers connecting them, had been recognized for centuries, and desultorily explored, almost nothing was known concerning hemispheric interchange, if any.
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Because the war was in its early days and the partisan war in the southern back country had not become as brutal as it would be later in the war, the siege was conducted desultorily, and was effectively a stalemate.
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In one office in the vast Stalinesque building, four civil servants in charge of issuing visas to foreigners sip tea, gripe about the asthmatic air conditioner and share a single phone, desultorily stretching its grimy cord from desk to desk.
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The two movies do share the same basic plot outline _ a couple of desultorily rich people manipulate the romantic lives of everyone around them, purely for their own amusement and without a whit of concern about who may get hurt in the process.
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Having resigned herself never to consummate her love for a man named Jerome _ a man her outgoing sister, Diana, has desultorily dated for years _ she starts seeing a dull, wealthy man, who does nothing to disqualify himself as a suitor.
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The New York of 20 years later may be a far more snug and secure environment, but it has also eliminated a good deal of the opportunity for fortuitous meetings and creative ferment that " Downtown 81 " effectively depicts and desultorily celebrates.
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Route 7 is the antiques corridor through New England, and we stopped desultorily at some places on the way; one, the Incurable Collector, included a cookie-jar museum with more than 2, 000 examples, including more cute animals than a Disney retrospective.
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At the far end of the block a subway train rumbled along elevated tracks, its noise unnoticed by the small groups of unemployed men and women, some with small children at their side, who had drifted out of tenement buildings to pass the morning, desultorily, with neighbors.
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Last decade's " Dangerous Liaisons " gets a makeover with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillipe as a couple of desultorily rich teens manipulating the romantic lives of everyone around them, purely for their own amusement and without a whit of concern about whom may be hurt in the process.
