Sentence examples for * the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

There's the perfunctory.

"It was way beyond the perfunctory solicitations for support".

Now the perfunctory has become the victim of the grueling.

He needed only the perfunctory confirmation of the association's members.

The words just kept coming, and so did the perfunctory rest of it.

But despite the perfunctory presence of two detectives, this is not a paint-by-numbers thriller.

He issued the perfunctory apology to the franchise, his teammates and his fans.

His early years are handled in the perfunctory style of most made-for-television biographies.

More disappointing is the perfunctory chapter on the humiliation of the world champion Garry Kasparov.

From the perfunctory to the expendable, or more precisely to The Expendables 2 (2012, LionsGate, 15).

We may chuckle at the perfunctory-to-the-point-of-ridiculousness security pat-downs at Shea Stadium.