Sentence examples for cursory summaries from inspiring English sources
But Mr. Aczel spends a good deal of his time giving cursory summaries of well-known historical occurrences: not just the rise of Venice as a world power and Marco Polo's journey to China, but also others like Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
Although Wodicka offers a cursory summary of Burt's childhood in a religious orphanage, asking why Burt believes he was born in the wrong time is as unproductive as inquiring why a transgendered individual believes he was born in the wrong sex.
A cursory summary of these kinds of distinctions between old and "new" eugenics can be found in Caplan 2004, and the same collection of distinctions underlies most liberal or "new" eugenic arguments.
White et al. (2009) offered only a cursory summary of arguments that were discussed in a 2007 workshop, but any fuller discussion that may have occurred in that workshop was not recounted.
The reasons for detainment in the summaries often are brief and cursory at best.
Currently, companies voluntarily send summary safety data to the F.D.A. for a cursory review.
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.
Another State Department official in Iraq wrote in his weekly summary to me, "At our project ribbon-cuttings we are typically greeted now with a cursory 'thank you,' followed by a long list of crushing needs for essential services such as water and power".
"My interest was cursory".
A cursory nod encouraged.
