Sentence examples for because of the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Or was it because of the perfunctory assumption that the medium of television could not set off a revolution; that revolutions could only have their origin in politics, not mass entertainment.

12 Years A Slave triumphed thanks to its Important Subject Matter, Dallas Buyers Club's honours felt like the perfunctory conclusion of the "McConnaissance", and The Wolf of Wall Street (though admittedly an uneven film) was overlooked because the world suddenly decided that depiction equates to endorsement.

There is a consensus among the medical community that the perfunctory use of radical therapies is leading to the widespread overtreatment of biologically indolent prostate cancers.

The words just kept coming, and so did the perfunctory rest of it.

But despite the perfunctory presence of two detectives, this is not a paint-by-numbers thriller.

But here, the lack of true dramatic content and the perfunctory characterisation abandons you to style alone.

The perfunctory blowouts of those days are no longer the norm.

He needed only the perfunctory confirmation of the association's members.

Who can explain the perfunctory role of the groom in ceremonies?

The perfunctory sex scene is a problem of romantic comedy and of serious drama alike.

Now the perfunctory has become the victim of the grueling.