Sentence examples for cursory account from inspiring English sources
The phrase "cursory account" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to a brief or superficial summary of information or events.
Example: "The report provided a cursory account of the project's progress, lacking detailed analysis."
Alternatives: "brief overview" or "superficial summary."
Still, his engaging, if sometimes cursory account reminds us of this writer's enormous energy and range.
Her cursory account of the company's early years has the feel of an obligatory setup to her main story.
It is so thorough, in fact, that it seems to inform Ms. Burns's parallel but more cursory account of Rand's personal life.
He has a cursory account of Koestler's assignation in the Schneidemühl paper mill with the boss of the underground Apparat N, and of his reports to the mysterious Edgar, delivered under the nom de guerre Ivan Steinberg.
Almost absent is conflict, except for a cursory account of recessionary speed bumps, the loss of clients after the Bernie Madoff scandal and the frustration of designers denied entry into the collections.
He provides only the most cursory account of the performer's musical apprenticeship — as a Motown artist and as a member of the Jackson 5 — and sheds little new light on his discovery of his own voice as an artist, the relationship between his music and his life, or the evolution of individual songs and albums.
He is perhaps too fond of cursory accounts of miscellaneous scientific experiments — his excursions into brain chemistry are little more than glances over the fence.
But if the museum's purpose was to explore genocide, it would have to be done in far greater detail; these cursory accounts seem to challenge the uniqueness of what we are seeing, even as the museum has gone out of its way to emphasize it.
But over all, it is as if intellectual and religious substance had been drained from Judaism, leaving behind cursory accounts of rituals, tales of victimization and an accumulation of Jewish achievements that might inspire contemporary interest (like Leib's writings or the emigration of Levi Strauss, the jeans pioneer).
It's not known for certain who is behind the account (a cursory Internet search revealed that someone named "Alexei Kouznetsov Kouznetsov" in Moscow is the registered owner of the e-books site listed on the Twitter account) or if a bot is even still behind it.
But even the most cursory reader of Macintyre's account has to be chilled by the stupidity of it all.
