Sentence examples for cursory eye from inspiring English sources

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And why would managers living game by game have anything but the most cursory eye on developing talent?

It fooled the cursory eye, putting Rothko's motivation so apparently on the surface, so visibly in the public domain, that it made it hard ever to think about him again with any subtlety.

I knew that millions of patients were receiving only cursory eye tests, and the practice of waiting until a disease manifested itself before acting meant it was often too late to save a person's sight.

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Their touch was cursory, their eyes never met, but at least they obeyed the protocol.

The handshake between them as Rooney lurched off, shoulders slumped, was cursory and without eye contact.

With the saddle balanced against her hip, she found the center of the round pen and the colt began his slow, cursory rounds, one wary eye to her form.

In the event, since I was seven months' pregnant at the time, the doctor forewent the test ("it would be unlikely", he said delicately) and made do with a cursory look in my eyes and ears before signing the form.

However, a cursory glance of the face, eyes, or skin of any individual does not define that individual.

But even a cursory glance through the detective's eyes reveals a place of moral and spiritual collapse.

These events litter our 24/7 news cycle, amplified by cursory sound bites, and quickly dismissed for more eye-popping and attention grabbing news.

As Twombly told the critic David Sylvester, "the Mediterranean is always just white, white, white": in the 24 drawings called Poems to the Sea the colour blue barely appears, and yet the cursory lines and spots create a sea of the mind's eye – hours of contemplation transformed into a few cryptic marks.

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