Sentence examples for is not perfunctory from inspiring English sources

The planning is not perfunctory.

Someday, somehow, the Tonys will figure out how to present the best-play nominees in a way that isn't perfunctory and awkward.

It was not perfunctory, or tired.

His arrangements weren't perfunctory, or there to class up the funk; they had rich harmony and tonal range and pulsation.

Yet it is not the perfunctory sex that lets things down so much as his casual admission that the cave-dwellers may have been deceiving themselves in their belief in the numinous.

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

Determination of the severity threshold depends on the clinician's interpretation of the available side effect data, which in itself, seems perfunctory if it is not situated in the context of the patient's present concerns, or what is meaningful for the patient in his or her "healthy" life.

It was not a perfunctory note.

But despite the perfunctory presence of two detectives, this is not a paint-by-numbers thriller.

One night of perfunctory debauchery has taught him that that is not his way to pass the last six months.

"Hellboy 2" is not a great movie - its narrative is at once too busy and too perfunctory - but it is lovable in its prodigious grotesquery.