The phrase "a cursory form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is superficial or done quickly without thoroughness, often in the context of analysis or examination.
Example: "The report provided a cursory form of the data, lacking the depth needed for a comprehensive understanding."
Alternatives: "a superficial version" or "a brief outline".
It's a very nice confection, with echoes of much of his previous work; there's something of Bullets Over Broadway, and the plot contrivance of a convenient brother in the mafia, and subsequent guilty anguish, is very like Crimes and Misdemeanors, although the idea appears in a lighter and more cursory form.
A cursory glance at the form book, and this should be a shoo-in for the home side.
What follows is a cursory look, in the form of a glossary, at the indirect and informal terminology and phraseology found in eBay auction/set-sale listings of vinyl records, or rather, in the title lines of such.
He said the only response he had received from church authorities had been in the form of a "cursory e-mail" giving the numbers of counselors he could talk to who were based "hundreds of miles" from where he lived.
The idea of an innovation path emerges from even a cursory look at the figure.
This is of course just a cursory list.
Throughout the production, Mr. Maliphant offers a cursory view of Rodin's way of giving static forms a sense of movement.
In the event, since I was seven months' pregnant at the time, the doctor forewent the test ("it would be unlikely", he said delicately) and made do with a cursory look in my eyes and ears before signing the form.
Bonifay, who conducted only a cursory search before recommending Lamont's hiring in 1996, spent last week forming a list of candidates he and McClatchy will interview.
In fact, a cursory examination of our country's history demonstrates that, at times, it has been used as a socially acceptable form of indentured servitude.
