Sentence examples for almost cursory from inspiring English sources

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Also peculiar is the almost cursory attention given to the Holocaust.

Impudence comes naturally to Does It Offend You, Yeah?, which charged through its set in an almost cursory fashion, as if in a hurry to get someplace else.

Picasso toiled over Charnel House slowly, between 1944 and 1945, despite the fact that the painting appears almost cursory and unfinished.

What interests him isn't the why and how of time travel — aside from almost cursory references to quantum physics and the idea of the "transmigration of souls," the question is hardly pondered at all — but the What If? "They say there are many worlds," Greta reflects early in the novel.

Yet when I ask if he enjoys causing a hoo-hah, he protests: "I never think anything I write is going to cause a hoo-hah!" The sexual violence in Imperial Bedrooms comes towards the very end of the novel, and feels almost cursory, which made me wonder if the author himself was growing bored with it, and had only stuck some in because readers would expect it.

The story is detached, almost cursory.

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It was almost rude if not self-indulgent to see so many talented dancers allowed only the most cursory moments to perform but otherwise be simply decorative.

The most cursory glance at the classics..".

Only in the most cursory way.

The show's final gallery, which turns to the documents' substance, is almost too cursory.

Reviews are generally cursory and almost always based on information supplied by the providers themselves.

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