Sentence examples for Perfunctory explanation from inspiring English sources
A flashback to an episode of childhood sexual molestation provides a too facile, too perfunctory explanation.
Most of the tenants are satisfied with the more or less perfunctory explanation that "the elevator man enters the apartment and renews the rose each week.
The final explanation is so perfunctory it could have been devised on the back of a napkin by M Night Shyamalan – though of course this absurdity, acknowledged with stoner fatalism, is part of the comedy.
These perfunctory descriptions do not account for performances that are anything but perfunctory.
Explanations of fundamental concepts are perfunctory.
Of the several occasions when he himself attracted critical attention — the Pat Tillman affair, for example, or the leaking of his Afghan strategic assessment — McChrystal offers explanations that fall somewhere between perfunctory and disingenuous.
It is utterly within their rights to do so, but the lack of longer notice (absent specific legal constraints), and a total lack of any explanation in the announcement for this change (only perfunctory operational details), are extremely disappointing.
In the most lazy and perfunctory way imaginable, the film pegs Beth as a high-strung workaholic, a trait offered as explanation for her single state.
In response to this view, it is argued that, if the fallacies are taught in a non-perfunctory way which includes the explanations of why they are fallacies which normative standards they transgress then a course taught around the core fallacies can be effective in instilling good reasoning skills (Blair 1995).
