Sentence examples for cursory notes from inspiring English sources

The British sent James Cook on the Endeavour to witness the transit from Tahiti, where his crew became so enamoured with the locals they made only cursory notes on the event.

For that matter, this volume builds upon the pioneering work of many other reporters (most notably, Seymour Hersh and Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times, and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post), whom Mr. Gellman mentions only glancingly, if at all, or in cursory notes at the end of the volume.

Because they had often made up details of play sessions on the spot, they usually just scribbled a quick map as they played, with cursory notes about monsters, treasures, and traps.

Try this: as your family member tells the story, take only broad, cursory notes — enough to make a rough outline.

(The Times made cursory note of Cuomo's statement toward the end of a story on other Cuomo-related matters).

The reporter's negligence is called out, the fact-checker's flouting of Times "standards," but there's just a cursory note about the "editing process".

I stood at the back of the crowd thinking: "Do they know I'm here?" Finally, an alderman gave a cursory note of thanks to about thirty people, including me.

So, at least, the exchange appears on a cursory reading.

Mr. Harrison scoffed at Mr. Siraj's answers, in particular his contention that he gave the document only a cursory review, noting that he faces up to life in prison if convicted.

His record-keeping was sloppy, his office notes cursory, and the consent forms his patients signed before surgery did not sufficiently inform them of its potential risks.

Of note, cursory examination of the cutoffs used reveals that should we have increased the percentage of trials for which |rho|≥0.75 from 40% to 50% we would not have identified at least two previously identified Oct4 targets; Sox2 (49%) and Cdyl (40%) [11], [12].