Significados de desultory reading en inglés

Passive reading is even more harmful in its effects than desultory reading.

It cannot be acquired by desultory reading, for instance, or travelling in Europe.

We are constantly asked whether desultory reading is among things lawful and permitted.

The crowded richness of the line advises a desultory reading.

He was constantly inveighing in his seminary against desultory reading.

I returned to my menial's cubicle and did some desultory reading for Fausta's lesson the next day.

The effect of this scrappy, desultory reading is bad enough when the hashed compound selected is tolerably good.

The yellow journalists doubtlessly suggested all sorts of lip-smacking innuendoes. Nevertheless, Ignatius treated the story to a desultory reading.

His impression gathered from such desultory reading had been that the effort in that direction was sporadic and ineffective.

The niece, who had considerable abilities, had, before she was left to his guardianship, been indulged in desultory reading.

Five minutes of desultory reading brought me unexpectedly to an explanation of the advertisement, in the shape of the following paragraph:

The principles which he had acquired from University lectures and desultory reading were far too vague and abstract for practical use.

The days of languid, desultory reading and study were over, and she determined to know at least a few things well.

She took him to task for not going to church more regularly, and pointed out to him the evils of desultory reading.

At the University of Moscow he had attended lectures on history and philosophy, and had got through a large amount of desultory reading.

Hence the Eton student who goes to Cambridge finds he has done but a little desultory reading, and that he must begin again.