Sentence examples for a perfunctory amount of from inspiring English sources

Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells.

Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.

The plot is a perfunctory scramble of family-film conventions.

Many times, consumer advocates say, the investigation translates to a perfunctory check of its records.

For a while, the filmmakers make a perfunctory show of fairness to both sides of the argument.

On another assignment, I planned to write a perfunctory profile of a librarian who was retiring from his post.

A perfunctory investigation of the original murder took place the following year at the request of the governor, and it concluded that the Chinese were the guilty parties.

Judge Baer did not raise any concerns with SAC's $14 million settlement, signing off on the deal in a perfunctory series of orders without comment.

But the fact that such a far-reaching piece of social legislation was able to pass with just a perfunctory round of protests suggests that resistance is dwindling.

Perez threw in the bullpen for about 10 minutes in front of the pitching coach Dan Warthen, and afterward was given a perfunctory seal of approval to be activated.

Berg gives us little on the vital economic debates of the Progressive Era, and only a perfunctory comparison of Wilson's "New Freedom" and Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism".