Sentence examples for another perfunctory from inspiring English sources

He smiled for the camera but in truth, putting on a happy face on this day was another perfunctory act, like putting on sunblock.

At each Tarmac touchdown, when the candidate and his wife dash into a waiting vehicle, Sam, 7, Charlie, 9, and Liza, 10, enthusiastically wave to camera crews huddled under the airplane wing for another perfunctory "arrival" photo that no one will probably ever use.

In Washington, saying you're for jobs has become just another obligatory, perfunctory throat-clearing preamble.

Service is friendly and efficient one night, perfunctory another.

Another tries out some equally perfunctory structure: "As Fabio goes, so goes the nation".

All over the world, people give perfunctory greetings to one another; they raise their hands to strangers and pass by, hardly waiting to see if a hand is lifted in reply.

The cases included those of Mr. Krueger, who criticized the system as insufficiently rigorous after winning back his gun rights in a perfunctory hearing, and of another man whose petition was approved without even a hearing, even though his felony involved pulling a gun on a man.

On another assignment, I planned to write a perfunctory profile of a librarian who was retiring from his post.

In the pilot Lamar persuades Rayna's milquetoast husband (Eric Close) to run for mayor, despite Rayna's support of another candidate, setting up a story arc that feels perfunctory and not very interesting, as if Ms. Khouri's heart weren't really in it.

Another, involving Mitchel's desultory affair with Charlotte, is so perfunctory and undernourished it might as well have been discarded.

Stacey Plaisance of the Associated Press commented that the tour was "another strong step in the right direction" and that Spears delivered a "a tightly choreographed, if perfunctory performance".