The whales show up, and while a bordered box accompanying each one summarizes the bridge gibberish in layman's terms, it is difficult to enjoy "The Cardturner" without devoting oneself to an at least cursory understanding of sentences like "Dummy's got king, queen, ten of spades, and I'm sitting behind it with ace, four, doubleton".
Only the accused killers of the minister have been convicted by the Palestinians so far, in a cursory trial that yielded sentences of one to 18 years.
In the last section, there is a cursory analysis of some short sentences including adverbial constructions [lupus est in fabula] and some liturgical formulae [patris et filii et spiritus sancti, ita missa est].
He asks if Mr Pistorius were a poor black man who had shot his girlfriend in a township in similar circumstances, would he not have been convicted of murder and handed a long sentence behind bars after a cursory investigation?
(Coldplay's "The Scientist" is sad we didn't mention it in that last sentence, so here's a cursory hat tip).
And the potted social histories are cursory – from Freud to Madonna in a single sentence, and a summary of Victorian "nascent feminism" that aligns it with Christian evangelism to explain how women came to be seen as society's moral guardians.
Her other characters are described in an even more cursory manner, their fates dismissively summed up in a careless sentence or two.
Mr. Milken's testimony, which began with a cursory 20 minutes on Monday afternoon, marked the first time he has appeared or spoken in public since he was sentenced in November 1990 to a 10-year prison term after he pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud.
From 1996 to 2004, the crucial sentencing phase, at which the judge or jury decided whether to impose the death penalty, was typically cursory, averaging less than two days long.
"My interest was cursory".
