Sentence examples for almost perfunctory from inspiring English sources
But their wooing was almost perfunctory.
She spoke in an unusually soft, almost perfunctory way.
Given Beijing's past vehemence, that seemed almost perfunctory.
The "M.V.P.!" chants at the Garden have become habitual, almost perfunctory.
Jennifer Tipton's lighting looks almost perfunctory, as in a rehearsal, except for frequent dimmings and blackouts.
The karaoke memorial is a low-key, almost perfunctory affair whose dominant mood is a sad sense of shared community.
(Michael Sragow, in The New Yorker, wrote that the film was "not satisfyingly profane" and that the characters and the plot were "almost insultingly perfunctory").
The images suggest cosmologies, geologies, glorious turmoil, but the handling, for all its lavish virtuosity, is weirdly perfunctory, almost corporate in its decorative impersonality.
Raza Kazim admits only to being in his eighties, but he has a perfunctory, almost irritatingly child-like way of twining his thin fingers together while trying to define his love of country, his belief in the worth of Pakistan.
As a result, the discussion of stop-and-frisk — which, had the forum been held a week before, might very well have been the night's primary topic — was perfunctory, almost an afterthought.
The dialogue is perfunctory, almost tedious: the recitation of how an 8-year-old girl killed a cat, of how a man got smushed under a truck; requests for tea, for meals, as communicated via a dumb waiter that, given its context, reads more like a guillotine.
