The phrase "cursory view of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that a brief or superficial examination of something has been conducted. For example, "We took a cursory view of the documents to assess their relevance."
Throughout the production, Mr. Maliphant offers a cursory view of Rodin's way of giving static forms a sense of movement.
Ours is a 30,000-ft, cursory view of three texts: the Quran and the Old and New Testaments, respectively".
We decided to loop back for a second visit to the Sistine Chapel after completing a cursory view of the galleries that follow it.
Alexander Nimmo was employed to report on the proposal and told that it was possible "so far as he expressed himself capable of judging from his present cursory view of the canal".
Alexander Nimmo was employed to assess the proposal, and reported that it was possible "so far as he expressed himself capable of judging from his present cursory view of the canal".
"A cursory view of this list would lead one to conclude that the young adult demographic found on infringing sites seems to be very attractive to the auto, auto insurance, mobile phone and credit ratings firms".
Rating: three ravens This SyFy series mashes up GoT with Clash of the Titans and 300 after a cursory viewing of all three.
Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that a cursory viewing of the maps led to "aggression and overzealousness that has led to questionable street justice".
"A glance at the map of Europe after 1648" is sufficient to counter the first objection, while "a cursory view across the landscape of the centuries since Westphalia" deals with the second.
I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.
A cursory viewing was enough, the way that you could lie in bed with nothing but sea and sky outside the window, through that CinemaScope frame of rusting rails.
