Sentence examples for flat perfunctory from inspiring English sources

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After treating us to the sort of music only the very wealthy can churn out when all their hunger has vanished, they give us a flat, perfunctory rendition of "Hotel California".

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Yet when she turns to the actual facts of Kate's life -- going to the mall, preparing for an Easter party, taking the children to the beach -- her poetic gifts falter, giving way to flat-footed even perfunctory recitations of tasks performed and noted.

He often paints them all but flat, adding only dim highlights and perfunctory shadings, which at first excite and then gently relax our automatic effort to read roundedness and depth in the pictures.

If you eat that burger and those chips – a grey patty of unknown origin, squash-fried on a flat hot plate, anaemic chips, some perfunctory salad, a burger bun baked some years ago, a single slice of cheese – you will feel full and bad and sort of hungover.

If you eat that burger and those fries a gray patty of unknown origin, squash-fried on a flat hot plate, anemic fries, some perfunctory salad, a burger bun baked some years ago, a single slice of cheese you will feel full and bad and sort of hungover.

SERVICE Perfunctory.

There's the perfunctory.

Perfunctory ones at that.

A perfunctory greeting.

The references are perfunctory.

Perfunctory greetings at door.

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