| In between, we get three deskbound duologues in which people jockey for status while revealing their essential solitude. |
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| Internally, a light-filled atrium is enclosed on three sides by office floors for deskbound employees. |
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| Mr Gros is a prodigious walker, going on hours-long rambles at times when not deskbound by his academic post. |
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| Half-eaten muffins, crumpled sandwich wrappers and small cairns of orange peel speak of deskbound dedication. |
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| Having changed careers and becoming deskbound I began to slouch and experience lower back pain. |
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| Timid, deskbound police are often loath to make arrests for fear of yet more paperwork. A second remedy would be to curb the illegal trade, which helps irresponsible buyers to get hold of large and dangerous products. |
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| By tradition copyreaders are gray, deskbound anonymities whose only brush with adventure is to tighten up the syntax of th people who write about it and to think up headlines for stories. |
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| There is no doubt that billions could be saved by slashing the number of deskbound brass hats and halting massive out-of-date arms contracts. |
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| It was an old academic, deskbound exercise, in case of a possible war with France, which specified almost nothing in practical terms, much less dressed troops and routed trains. |
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| The deskbound police officer had no opportunity to deal with street crime. |
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| Deskbound in the yellow room during the crepuscular hour, I'm typing scientific syntax, window flung open. |
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