"cursory discussions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Example sentence: "We had a few cursory discussions about the new marketing strategy, but we never went into much detail."
General Manager Ernie Accorsi has had cursory discussions with Petitgout's agent, Tom Condon, with more talks to come in February.
Addition by Subtraction The Mets had cursory discussions this winter about pursuing the free agent outfielder Juan Gonzalez and pitcher David Cone.
And even though the Yankees recently signed the Cuban defector and third baseman Andy Morales, and have had some cursory discussions with Cincinnati about reacquiring the third baseman/quarterback Drew Henson, they do not really have an established heir at third base.
Mr. Barber's discussions of how American foreign policy has changed since 9/11 range from the obvious to the familiar, as do his cursory discussions of the role that the animating myths of exceptionalism and New World innocence have played in the shaping of American history.
Its cursory discussion of homosexuality may offend certain viewers.
Most high school textbooks only have a cursory discussion of these sorts of topics.
That's a rather cursory discussion, and I don't want to read too much into it.
Four days after his unexpected appointment, Mikhail Y . Fradkovwas approved as prime minister by the Russian Parliament on Friday, following little debate and only a cursory discussion of his policy goals.
There is only a cursory discussion of venture capital and no attention paid at all to entrepreneurship the most powerful way to turn ideas into valuable products and services.The world is spikyAnother problem is that EU officials, like government bureaucrats everywhere, are obsessed with creating geographic clusters like Silicon Valley.
The first — and possibly last — debate in the New York race for governor unfolded as 90 minutes of political theater verging on farce Monday night, with a format that allowed even cursory discussion of issues like taxes and schools to be interrupted by random one-liners and sometimes inexplicable answers.
Later, when Nikki Reed, the 15-year-old star and co-writer of the feature film "Thirteen," ventured to talk proudly about a new piercing, Ms. DeGeneres quashed the subject, instead encouraging the girl -- after only a cursory discussion of her precocious work as a screenwriter -- to deliver an applause line about what good grades she gets.
