Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.
She stole the scene in the perfunctory Sandra Bullock romcom The Proposal.
It forces its audience to contend with truths that may otherwise be buried in the perfunctory rhythm of everyday life.
In the perfunctory second half, Germany ran the score to 7-0 Brazil Brazil pulled back a late consolation goal.
Not only did we not see any interaction between the Han and Uighur people beyond the perfunctory exchanges in stores and restaurants, we witnessed downright hostility.
As a result, one detects a touch of the perfunctory in the family aspect of her tale, as well as a disinclination toward serious introspection.
And although they are capable artists, Vanessa Redgrave and Willem Dafoe seem to serve no substantial role other than the perfunctory Westerners in a film about people of color.
And in the ultimately muddled and perfunctory second act of "Between Riverside and Crazy" Pops takes up with a beautiful Santeria practitioner named Church Lady (brilliantly and freely played by Liza Colón-Zayas), but the play is really centered on the idea of patriarchy: How do we father the fatherless?
The interactions of men and women in Mr. Woo's American movies are stubbornly perfunctory, and in the absence of close compadres the true heat in these pictures is generated by the symbiotic relationship between the (male) hero and the (male) villain: a twisted bond, but something, at least, for him to hold on to.
She continued opening the mail and skimmed a few other resumes in the same perfunctory manner.
She never asked how I felt, she just carried out the blood tests in the most perfunctory way.
