Sentence examples for cursory sense from inspiring English sources

In the following section I will introduce a number of fields that are relevant in socio-political terms, but that can of course give only a cursory sense of the range of anticommunist manifestations from the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany.15 I will also discuss the depth of penetration, contradictions, and the limits of West German anticommunism.

And anyone with even a cursory sense of history will know that the story of the Christian church has been, and continues to be, one of conflict, confusion, even corruption.

The online review was cursory in the sense that it did not realize the expansion of the online version.

Members are enthusiastic but usually have only cursory training and very little sense of military discipline, often commuting to the front from their homes.

But again without stepping into spoiler territories, there's the definite sense on even a cursory poke around each stage's relics and wildlife – both very much alive and reduced to skeletons – that this isn't quite the Blue Planet we know in the today of 2016.

She said yes to every request, posing quickly but without any sense of the moment being cursory or false.

A cursory glance over the border gives a sense of the fiscal situation facing Scottish local authorities in the near future.

Inspectors found that some of the mentor's reviews of trainees' progress and targets were of "little value", amounting to "little more than a set of cursory or cryptic comments which convey little sense of what trainees need to do to improve their teaching or wider professional practice".

A cursory look at the remaining Indicator projects reinforces the sense of plethora rather than parsimony.

Throughout the production, Mr. Maliphant offers a cursory view of Rodin's way of giving static forms a sense of movement.

Even a cursory look at the numbers, Hogue believed, revealed that Princeton's sense of itself as a home for the finest young scholars, regardless of family background, was no less a fiction than his story of the ranch hand who read Plato under the stars.