Sentence examples for cursory description from inspiring English sources

He has abstained throughout not only from assessment, but from anything other than the most cursory description of Lewis's work as an artist and writer.

Dame Edna's cantata was so close to being a matter-of-fact, if cursory, description of Australian history that the evening took on the feeling of a hugely dull school trip.

Because it is not seen as a material issue, most food companies either do not report on farm animal welfare at all or, if they do, they provide at best a cursory description of their approach.

Space limitations preclude even a cursory description of all the works, but there were also inventive and involving contributions from Augusta Read Thomas, Filippo Del Corno, Carlo Boccadoro, John Harbison, David Crumb, William Bolcom and Gerald Levinson.

To partially circumvent the unavoidable cursory description, a large bibliographic analysis is presented to allow the interested reader to scrutinize.

Also providing a cursory description of gold mining prospects in the region, Clark criticised the actions of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Warton, who was in the vicinity representing the North Charterland Exploration Company, a BSAC subsidiary.

It provided cursory descriptions of about a hundred mental disorders, and was sold primarily to large state mental institutions, for three dollars and fifty cents.

Torre listened to cursory descriptions of the recent memo today from reporters and surmised that the two incidents involving Clemens were "what caused this thing".

With such a minimal plot and cursory descriptions, there's plenty of room for Strauch's musings, as reported by the impressed and increasingly unhinged narrator.

A major limitation we encountered in our review was that many primary studies included only cursory descriptions of their Internet-based educational intervention (e.g. educational setting, teaching practices and rationale of course design).

Hence, a cursory but clear description of failure as observed in lab experiments is first given, followed by an in-depth mathematical representation of underlying physical phenomena, which eventually gives way to modern/contemporary theories and concepts relating to the failure analysis of geomaterials.