Sentence examples for cursory observations from inspiring English sources

Traditional teacher evaluations typically involve cursory observations by school administrators who visit the classroom once or twice — without taking student achievement into account.

In my mind though, the wider question is not whether or not Lily Allen's feminist song is a success or not; it's why is it that one single music video containing some fairly cursory observations on sexism is able to stir up such a reaction in the feminist movement.

While the lack of focus you mention is certainly a byproduct of the digital environment, more troubling is a corollary phenomenon — a tendency of the digital generation to dispense with nuance and multiple layers of meaning, much like a computer, in favor of immediate and often cursory observations.

Systematic reconnaissance efforts and detailed forensic investigations can fill critical gaps between cursory observations to gain a thorough understanding of the factors that contribute to performance.

Even as the book transitions into its other major characters, the voices all seem to bleed together, mostly evoking only cursory observations of their world, constantly riddled with pat stereotypes that bely the one true presence of Danielewski behind them all.

Even a cursory observation reveals a continued obsession with the grand history of leaders and armies.

Indeed, cursory observation suggests that New Yorkers spend more time pushing shrimp heads around on a plate than sucking on them.

A cursory observation (of history, let alone the Internet) shows that discussion, like mold, will occur wherever there are favorable conditions.

Even the most cursory observation of America's decline since 2005 should rekindle disgust toward John Kerry.

A cursory observation on our neonatal ward suggests that malaria may not be uncommon in this environment.

The first question has been settled by the observation that the few, cursory encounters by explorers before him were barely noticed at the time and contributed nothing to the future development and history of the land which would become Brazil, the sole Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas.