The role of hair in myth, art and religion is dealt with only in the most cursory manner, while the possibilities for textual analysis offered by movies, magazines and music videos are barely explored.
Early excavations made by the pioneering Mexican archaeologist Leopold Batres in the late 19th Century were cursory, while further digs made between then and World War Two were seen as little more than a nuisance by those living in the elegant residential streets of this central quarter of Mexico City.
"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.
The trickiest bit of making an Irish coffee is getting the cream to float on top; even the most cursory glance at the photos will prove it took me a good while to master this technique.
He was despondent about the cursory nature of the contact.
While making a cursory examination of the most recent arrival, a young woman whose toe tag bears the name "Christine Falls," Quirke notices "the dark roots of her hair at forehead and temples: dead, and not even a real blonde".
And so, a cursory glance would suggest, while the behavior of the French media has changed — revealing more about the private life of public figures — traditional French attitudes of discretion and tolerance have held up.
And while the cursory reader could contend that the characters are cliched or the plotting melodramatic – people do get chopped up with axes, and no one screams – there are in fact several complex strands being forced to work together by her technical skill.
Though the cross-dressing number gets a laugh, it feels cursory, as the other early group routines do while they tick off a list of configurations before fading out.
-- won by Webb -- received cursory mention in the news media, while Woods's triumph at the British Open in St .Andrews, Scotland, led every sportscast and even some news reports.
