Sentence examples for a perfunctory visit from inspiring English sources
After a perfunctory visit to a local hospital, he said, he was taken to police headquarters where, after questioning, he was released some five hours after the incident occurred and returned to the hospital.
White House officials have already said Mr. Bush plans no reconciliation with the leaders of France and Germany, beyond what they call a perfunctory "courtesy visit" to President Jacques Chirac during the summit meeting, to be held in the French town of Évian.
The tradition exists most notably in the ceremonies of arranged marriages and the perfunctory visits some of Mr. Upadhyay's characters pay to the city's temples.
Probably assuming I wouldn't take him up on it, he once again extended a perfunctory invitation for me to visit.
I learned that my "office visit" consisted of a perfunctory conversation I had with the doctor while I was wearing a paper gown, lying on an operating table and in a fog, minutes before he did the deed.
(By contrast, French news reports last spring noted that President François Hollande's first visit to China included a perfunctory 36 hours in the capital).
Ouellet wrote a perfunctory letter.
Mr. Kramer gave it a perfunctory glance.
Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.
George Bush has pledged support, but in a perfunctory way.
