Sentence examples for cursory attempt from inspiring English sources

But couples who disagree, said Paul Allen Beck, a political scientist at Ohio State University, usually make at least a cursory attempt to resolve their differences.

After another cursory attempt to walk up and down the few roads open to me, pretending to be a shopper, I give up.

Not long ago, her body would have been taken to a funeral home for a cursory attempt at identification, then buried in this town an hour north of the Mexico border under a sign reading "unknown female".

Indeed, if that's all you know about him it's likely to prevent you from learning what is worth knowing, which is that he is an elusive figure likely to rebuff a cursory attempt to plumb his depths.

They are dehumanized as irredeemable monsters, products of their race and/or a culture we are meant to believe exists in a vacuum, who aren't even worth a cursory attempt at empathy.

"I think that there'll be a cursory attempt at getting it through the parliament this year and, if that fails, he's made it very clear he wants a result by the end of the year, and I think it will end up being a parliamentary vote".

Hazmi and Mihdhar were supposed to learn English and then enroll in flight schools, but they made only cursory attempts at both.

But there is something cursory about these attempts.

The reviewer is repulsed by the actor's "flabby bottom"; Everett attempts a cursory glance south, but can't be arsed to look beyond the side of his knee.

There's no attempt, even a cursory one, to do anything more than hold a tourist camera up to the US's main superpower rival; China unfolds simply as a smattering of postcard-image locations – the Great Wall, the Bird's Nest stadium, Beijing airport – which presumably were part of the price for local co-operation.

We have attempted a few cursory etching experiments with K2S2O8 or (NH4 2S2O8 in 48 wt.% HF.