The phrase "as a cursory" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to indicate something that is done quickly, with little attention to detail. For example: "I only glanced at the report, so I couldn't give an in-depth analysis - just a cursory assessment."
Reznor is the same, as a cursory listen to the DS's Closer will reveal.
Dr. Crystal concludes that the Internet is not going to spawn a generation of illiterates, as a cursory look at any undergraduate's e-mail might suggest.
As a cursory search on Google Images (hard research here, people!) proves, this one, while not in the best of taste, was clearly part of that tendency.
THE KEY FACT As much as a cursory glance at these videos shows that Livingstone will say anything to sell his point, the real kicker is this: Both of these terrorists were receiving training as jihadists before September 11th 2001.
Responses have been predictably vicious, as a cursory glance at comments on a Daily Mail article will attest: * "Total waste of funding for a fat, pompous, self narcissistic trailer trash woman".
Upon becoming a senior international, he was increasingly perplexed by its amateurish approach to match preparation and was not alone, as a cursory flick through the autobiographies of any Republic of Ireland international who played through the Jack Charlton and Mick McCarthy eras will prove.
This analysis examines how the level of directed patrol influences the number of subsequent crimes in the micro-time hot spot as well as offers a cursory look at what might be optimal for accelerating the cooling off of a micro-time hot spot.
The Boston Dynamics robots are both impressive and creepy, as even a cursory inspection of YouTube videos will confirm.
As even a cursory overview at the Information Age will tell you, nothing is really free: you pay the price when you don't get the real story.
In fact, Burton's attitude to drink played a major part in his apparent misuse of his talent as even a cursory reading of his riveting diaries reveals.
Prices in Dallas haven't suffered a Vegas-style plunge — maybe because we didn't get the extreme highs — but the numbers, as even a cursory crunch of the multiple listing service shows, are bad enough.
