The essential qualities of Stephen Sondheim's artistic temperament -- the peppery precision, the refusal to traffic in received wisdom and the commitment to truth over sentimentality -- help turn what could have been a perfunctory curatorial service into the most valuable theater book of the year.
Despite the sometimes perfunctory service, this handsome wood-paneled room has a mellow Mitteleuropa charm.
Disorganized, perfunctory service.
Others look disappointed or resentful as they tell me about cramped tables in the neoclassical arcades around the grand sunken dining room and hasty, perfunctory service.
People like Ms. Nicolaou -- corporate events planners, meeting managers, gala directors -- faced limited menus, perfunctory service and decor that ran from drab to ostentatious.
But I'm getting weary of flight attendants who haven't even bothered to groom themselves well; spend their time talking about their schedules; and offer merely perfunctory service.
On May 9, as members of the Trinity Choir, they performed a noonday program at St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway for Bach at One, a new five-year series, with Julian Wachner conducting the choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra in all the Bach cantatas and other choral works as part of perfunctory services.
"While standing in front of the stars representing CIA personnel who lost their lives in the service of their country — hallowed ground — Trump gave little more than a perfunctory acknowledgment of their service and sacrifice," Schiff said in a statement that criticized Trump's speech as frivolous and meandering.
Customer experience expert Chip Bell says, "Service can be a perfunctory act delivered with routine banter and going-through-the-motions energy.
After his four years of dedicated service, Donovan was dismissed with a perfunctory form letter. Yet Donovan did not have to wait long to see his dream of a central intelligence agency realized.
