Sentence examples for in a perfunctory from inspiring English sources

One thing missing is a genuine love story, although "Real Steel" throws in a perfunctory romance between Mr. Jackman's Rocky Balboa-like character, Charlie Kenton, and Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), his former sweetheart who owns a boxing gym that doubles as a robot workshop.

George Bush has pledged support, but in a perfunctory way.

Andrew has passed 14 years in a perfunctory, taciturn marriage.

"But now you can't just do it in a perfunctory way," he said.

She neither monumentalizes his influence nor engages in a perfunctory, reflexive attack on his pioneering work.

Today the Supreme Court, in a perfunctory three-sentence order, agreed.

You may wish it did not all happen in such a perfunctory, predictable way.

It seemed unfair that the world No1 should leave the fray in such a perfunctory manner.

He said that although the previous rules had confined creationism to religious education lessons, "the Royal Society identified a potential issue that schools could have avoided teaching evolution by natural selection in science lessons or dealt with it in a such a perfunctory way, that the main experience for students was the creationist myth".

But it must be asked, in more than a perfunctory way, because it is hard to see what, in the Administration's rationale, would prevent shooting an American dead in London without bothering with a trial.

Hertz is not alone in having such a perfunctory approach to smartphones.