Sentence examples for in perfunctory from inspiring English sources
Should he have mumbled in perfunctory fashion?
At least, this is how the four very drunk witnesses said it went down in perfunctory police interviews conducted before they scattered into the night.
Then some representatives gathered on the floor of the House to engage in perfunctory, time-killing debate, where Democrats and Republicans yielded time to one another so their squabbling would have a cordial veneer.
But the story is quite quickly dispensed with in perfunctory fashion, and the work is held together chiefly through the personality of Aphrodite (Gioia Marchese), a voluptuous brothel keeper in platinum wig and satin dressing gown, cigarette holder permanently aloft.
Though the Philippine government had dropped a few teachers on the island in the 1960's, they were mostly there on what seemed like extended vacations, occasionally drilling some children in perfunctory recitations of Tagalog, the national language.
You are unlikely to hear the name of Theodore Roosevelt praised by Republicans or of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the Democrats, except in perfunctory terms (It was FDR, after all, who said he feared government by money as much as government by the mob).
There is scant encouragement to integration in Updike's fiction of the period, where black people put in mostly perfunctory appearances, as in old movies.
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.
Inevitably succumbing to schmaltz, "The Change-Up" turns cloying in its perfunctory later scenes, in which each friend comes away from the ordeal having absorbed useful life lessons while in the body of his polar opposite.
The documents also suggest that while staff members of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force eventually consulted environmentalists, they did not do so until late in the game, and then in a perfunctory manner.
Offering to suggest a book based on one's last five reads, he was impressive in his range, perfunctory in his responses, and quick on the draw.
