Sentence examples for cursory the from inspiring English sources

The subplots are cursory, the language cliched.

Because no representative of Mr. Obama appeared at the hearing on Thursday and the only response his campaign provided was the one-and-a-half-page letter, which the state deemed cursory, the board decided it could not rule immediately.

In a manner both grandly comprehensive and, even in 10 hours over five consecutive nights, necessarily cursory, the documentary surveys the entire bunch, from Washington to Bill Clinton, acting something like the moderator of a presidential debate as it gives roughly equal time to each.

The story is cursory (the Oogieloves chase magic balloons, basically), and cameos from actors such as Chazz Palminteri, Jaime Pressly, Cary Elwes and Cloris Leachman leave them "all looking slightly confused and vaguely embarrassed".

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.

This schematic history is only cursory; the point is that it forms the basis for an enduring scientific – and political – understanding of metabolism as a laboratory whose working is basically the same for everyone, except those whose laboratory contains a broken instrument – an 'inborn error'.

There are also security questions that need to be addressed with more than a cursory check-the-box.

Each artifact is numbered; key in the number, and audio commentary, ranging from the cursory to the encyclopedic, can be heard.

The biographical element was cursory, leaving the songs to suggest the story of Hart's unhappy, alcoholic life.

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

Inspection of piping was often cursory and the backs of the pipes, which were hard to reach, were often ignored.