desultory
31desultory — [16] Latin dēsultor designated a circus trick rider who jumped from the back of one horse to another while they were galloping along (it was a derivative of dēsilīre, a compound verb formed from dē ‘down’ and salīre ‘jump’, source of or related… …
32desultory — adj. 1 going constantly from one subject to another, esp. in a half hearted way. 2 disconnected; unmethodical; superficial. Derivatives: desultorily adv. desultoriness n. Etymology: L desultorius superficial f. desultor vaulter f. desult (as DE …
33A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) — A Simple (Or How I Was Robert McNamara d Into Submission) is a song written by Paul Simon. The song has two versions. The original version was performed and recorded by him with one microphone and an acoustic guitar on his solo album The Paul… …
34desultorily — desultory ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking purpose or enthusiasm. 2) going from one thing to another erratically and intermittently: a desultory conversation. DERIVATIVES desultorily adverb. ORIGIN Latin desultorius superficial (literally relating to a… …
35Deviation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deviation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deviation deviation Sgm: N 1 swerving swerving &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 obliquation| obliquation| warp refraction Sgm: N 1 flection flection flexion …
36random — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. haphazard, casual, chance, fortuitous, aimless. Ant., planned, expected, foreseen. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. haphazard, chance, casual, arbitrary, desultory, aimless, indiscriminate, irregular,… …
37random — random, haphazard, chance, chancy, casual, desultory, hit or miss, happy go lucky are comparable when they mean having a cause or a character that is determined by accident rather than by design or by method. What is random comes, goes, occurs,… …
38Tu Long — ( zh. 屠隆; Wade Giles: T u Lung, 1542–1605), was a playwright and essayist who lived during the Ming Dynasty. He was born in Yin county (now Yin county, in suburb of Ningpo city, Zhejiang).In 1577, Tu Long obtained the degree of jinshi. He later… …
39Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme — Studioalbum von Simon and Garfunkel Veröffentlichung 1966 Label Columbia Records …
40eastern Africa — ▪ region, Africa Introduction part of sub Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.… …
