Sentence examples for a bit of perfunctory from inspiring English sources
Situated on the Arborway, a busy overpass that Olmsted foresaw as a tree-lined link between Franklin Park and the nearby Arnold Arboretum, the installation lent a bit of perfunctory nature to one of those pedestrian no-man's lands that modern cities spawn.
Aside from a bit of perfunctory TV coverage, the only Americans likely to be familiar with them were gays themselves and anyone who watched The Laramie Project.
At the opening of Sen. Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearings for the post of Secretary of State on Tuesday, the ranking Republican on theSenate Foreign Relations Committee offered a bit of perfunctory praise for the former first lady.
The murder is solved in a bit of remarkably perfunctory plotting, while Aaron and Krista play out the long-suppressed sense of entanglement that is Oates's true plot.
It was her tiny bit of luxury, a bit of beauty, in a very perfunctory life which was filled with functional things.
Romney, appearing tieless at what was supposed to be a victory rally in Colorado, offered perfunctory congratulations to Santorum, engaged in a bit of dutiful but uninspired Obama-bashing, and signed off by saying, "We've got a long way to go".
My best guess: perhaps Mr. Biden can be credited with what in baseball statistics would be termed a "hold": something a bit shy of either a win or a save and which will probably seem perfunctory with the passage of time, but which might have done his team a bit of good.
