But the team's interest was considered more perfunctory than serious.
Consider E!'s perfunctory gloss of Leif Garrett's surrender of his teenage fame to heroin addiction, for example.
There's a huge difference between the perfunctory plots sometimes used in pornography and the experience of immersing yourself in a story, characters and a considered environment – all those elements of the intellectual exchange involved in reading.
However, this process seems to occur only in a perfunctory manner by considering only the most obvious pathway, not necessarily at the most important time: before a product is introduced into commerce (e.g., nanoparticles).
-- pass as usual, with little debate, with perfunctory media mention.
When someone says, "But the government should consider how it could address public concerns," you can be sure that some kind of perfunctory "listening exercise" will be trumpeted, and then said concerns will be blithely ignored.
That prompted unusual public grumbling by some members, notably by Prince Talal, who considers himself king material despite a renegade period in the early 1960s, so the council might play at least a perfunctory role in approving Prince Salman's elevation to crown price.
