Sentence examples for fairly cursory from inspiring English sources

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The writing is fairly cursory; a journalist's once-over-easy.

Compared with these animals, today's fare warrants a fairly cursory glance – albeit it volunteers an interesting wager in yet another son of Galileo at Doncaster.

Times editors said that when the first Enquirer story appeared and they could not verify it after fairly cursory inquiries, they left it alone.

In my mind though, the wider question is not whether or not Lily Allen's feminist song is a success or not; it's why is it that one single music video containing some fairly cursory observations on sexism is able to stir up such a reaction in the feminist movement.

Mr. Causey also indicated to the investigators that his efforts to review the negotiations on partnerships transactions -- in which employees in the finance division acting on behalf of Enron could be taking positions against the direct financial interest of their boss, Mr. Fastow -- were fairly cursory.

And sure enough, after a fairly cursory Google, it was confirmed – the picture of bad guy is in fact ​Martin Bormann: one time personal secretary to Adolf Hitler, recipient of the Nazi Party Long Service Award, who fled after the war purportedly to South America.

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But it's pretty cursory.

At first, five minutes sounded pretty cursory.

The Troubled families Unit report concludes: "Convincing people that the way we provide services to and spend money on troubled families is ineffective and costly is fairly easy – any cursory consideration makes this quickly self-evident.

A cursory glance shows a fairly weak stable of clients.

I won't go on too much about the show itself, as it's fairly deplorable and the contents don't really warrant mentioning aside from a cursory glance.

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