Sentence examples for cursory job from inspiring English sources
"In terms of talking about the issues affecting young people, they did a very cursory job".
(Is this the famous English love of amateurism, or simply a comment on the absence of copy editors in London? The American publishers have done only a cursory job of cleaning things up).
Though the book goes into bloodchilling detail about the purges carried out among party members, it does a highly cursory job of depicting the larger events that occurred during Stalin's reign -- from forced collectivization, the Great Famine and the massacres of kulaks and Jews to the Soviet Union's role in World War II.
Aside from cursory job applications I did none of the internships, freelancing or networking needed to get ahead in that field. .
But driver education has devolved into a cursory chore.
Nonetheless, a cursory review of job vacancies in Bali let alone Indonesia more broadly, also shows a healthy demand for developers.
Five candidates are judged by representatives from the employer of the week, first based on a cursory tryout in the job in question, then with a silly quiz.
While the external obstacles presented to Gopnik are conveyed on a cursory level— turmoil within his job and family lives, questions of his own faith feature heavily in the trailer's dialogue— Woollen understood that the audience would be best treated to a trailer that drew them into, "this kind of crazy fever dream cacophony nightmare".
"In true Internet fashion, it's not based on very thorough research — essentially a cursory look at the Steve Jobs Wikipedia page," said Ryan Perez, who wrote and directed "iSteve".
A lot of issues are only given cursory treatment, like the fact Jobs was adopted, that he refused to acknowledge his first daughter for years, or why he screwed over some of Apple's founding members.
If only they employed weather forecasters – cursory Googlers could also have done the job – they might have discovered that Rio de Janeiro is prone to the odd August drenching.
