Sentence examples for cursory reader from inspiring English sources

As even the most cursory reader of the business pages knows, America's economy is in peril.

But even the most cursory reader of Macintyre's account has to be chilled by the stupidity of it all.

And while the cursory reader could contend that the characters are cliched or the plotting melodramatic – people do get chopped up with axes, and no one screams – there are in fact several complex strands being forced to work together by her technical skill.

Presumably, these parameters are determined to satisfy the constraints provided by modern biophysical measurements referenced but currently, their description is too cursory to help the readers understand why these numbers were chosen.

The book is written in language that readers with a cursory understanding of biology will understand.

As of last night, a cursory glance at the TIME 100 reader's poll shows her beating out pop culture heavyweights Emma Watson, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and even Malala Yousafazi (who should definitely be ahead of Lady Gaga) all by a wide margin.

– Often an experimental result is given but only cursory information is given to assist the reader in interpreting that result.

In particular, the discussion of the experiments in Figure 5 is really cursory: the inferences are stated and the reader is simply referred to the figure, for which the figure legend provides minimal information.

Cursory research tells me that many Guardian readers feel the same.

One explanation could be that indexing works by titles and authors alone, as happened with printed journals, forced readers to cast at least a cursory glance at work not immediately related to their own or even that the mere act of flicking through a paper volume may have thrown up unexpected gems.

Even the most cursory trawl through his 10 volumes of poetry leaves the reader apparently familiar with his glamorous family, his father's bankruptcy, his school days at Eton and many other biographical minutiae, often including elements of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.