Try this: as your family member tells the story, take only broad, cursory notes — enough to make a rough outline.
A cursory viewing was enough, the way that you could lie in bed with nothing but sea and sky outside the window, through that CinemaScope frame of rusting rails.
True enough, a cursory glance at the band's back catalogue produces a list of middling cultural figureheads as long as your arm.
Even with the new security features on passports, like watermarks, holograms and laser-etched photographs, criminal syndicates can change stolen passports enough to pass the cursory inspection typical at border crossings.
Even a cursory dip into Tumblr is usually enough to reveal what hero pairing fans are shipping that week and a massive undercurrent of fan art crafting alternate realities for the well-loved characters.
And sure enough, after a fairly cursory Google, it was confirmed – the picture of bad guy is in fact Martin Bormann: one time personal secretary to Adolf Hitler, recipient of the Nazi Party Long Service Award, who fled after the war purportedly to South America.
And sure enough, after a fairly cursory Google, it was confirmed the picture of bad guy Arthur Slugworth is in fact Martin Bormann, the one-time personal secretary to Adolf Hitler, recipient of the Nazi Party Long Service Award, who fled after the war purportedly to South America.
Too often, children and adolescents receive a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder because of its highly subjective nature and without nearly enough caution: exams are generally cursory, prescriptions are freely given, even as trial runs "just in case," and justifications for treatment vary widely.
What's striking, first of all, is that the "news" is presented to us, under the guise of objective reporting, as a fait accompli: Our supreme leaders have the following plans, the cursory details of which they are nice enough to let us in on.
A cursory look at Creedon's interim report is enough to confirm that Francis was correct.
