The women resume their drunken and desultory ramblings. They repulsed the desultory attacks of the imperial troops. After the fall of Sevastopol, hostilities continued in a desultory fashion. They endured a desultory siege for three months. The party quickly dwindled into fringe status, and now only exists in desultory fashion. Everett's association with Hollywood was brief and desultory. The rather desultory way in which federation proceeded reflected the absence of compelling urgency. After several hours of desultory firing, the Mexican soldiers withdrew. Many of his underlords had been in constant or desultory revolt for years. Even then, rehearsals were desultory and reaction negative. Diderot would keep writing on science in a desultory way all his life. Anti-aircraft fire was desultory and inaccurate. It would make a desultory final appearance in 1988 before collapsing altogether in 1993. Morris' efforts on their behalf have been criticized as desultory and insufficient. Encountering desultory resistance, the US 79th Infantry Division captured the city on 10 April 1945.