Sentence examples for In the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

In the perfunctory second half, Germany ran the score to 7-0 Brazil Brazil pulled back a late consolation goal.

She stole the scene in the perfunctory Sandra Bullock romcom The Proposal.

It forces its audience to contend with truths that may otherwise be buried in the perfunctory rhythm of everyday life.

Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.

But the arrangement has received far more scrutiny in Washington than the perfunctory review the companies expected, largely prompted by the opposition of rival media companies, especially the Walt Disney Company.

As a result, one detects a touch of the perfunctory in the family aspect of her tale, as well as a disinclination toward serious introspection.

In a previous post about the tragic death of Robin Williams, I urged us to go beyond the perfunctory in relating with each other.

She never asked how I felt, she just carried out the blood tests in the most perfunctory way.

Trump, for his part, could claim that he had raised the question of Russian interference, even if he did so only in the most perfunctory of fashions.

His father, Henry B. Weaver, the official reporter for the House of Representatives, had served earlier as the government's reporter in the rather perfunctory Brownsville inquiry.

As for J-Lo, she looks to be grinding through her set in the same perfunctory style in which she might submit to a colonic or inform a backing dancer she was marrying him.