Sentence examples for Perfunctory from inspiring English sources

One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.

EDM bangers like this already sound rather passe but Alesso is ploughing ahead regardless, with Swedish superstar Tove Lo phoning in a suitably perfunctory topline.

This should include support offered to all those with a diagnosis and the end of perfunctory, slapdash homecare visits.

Perfunctory prayers at Mumbai's soulless municipal crematoria are just not the same.

The bad sex prize was established "to draw attention to the crude and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel – and to discourage it".

A perfunctory investigation soon after the FBI raid on the compound, which left 80 people dead by gunshot or fire, was ignored.

Hertz is not alone in having such a perfunctory approach to smartphones.

Obituaries were perfunctory: most took the same tone as the General Advertiser, which brusquely reported that Kent had died "of a Mortification of his Bowels".A new show aims to bring "Kentissime"—a term coined by Walpole back to the limelight.

Mrs Merkel's dealings with the new leader of Latin America apparently went no further than a perfunctory handshake.

To descend as far, to take as much of her as he could survive, and risk even more".The Caribbean setting, where a desultory coup is under way, is pro forma; occasionally a hard-bitten journalist, shady CIA operative, or shifty junta general provides perfunctory (if painfully familiar) atmosphere.

Both Japan and America, its protector, have long called for China to accept a hotline to Japan.As for the two countries' leaders, even a perfunctory handshake in Beijing would be something, while a substantive meeting would be best of all.