Sentence examples for is too perfunctory from inspiring English sources

And Graeme - your bottom-patting is too perfunctory".

Yes, there is a final act, a resurrection of sorts -- or perhaps reincarnation, with Wynton Marsalis arriving like a jazz Dalai Lama, after the deaths of Ellington and Armstrong -- but it is too perfunctory to dispel the air of gloom.

The startup's name was essentially dragged through the mud this week by both sides: TfL questioned whether it was an effective way of checking people out, and concluding it an example of how Uber is too perfunctory in its safety checks.

My immediate reaction was that this judgment was too perfunctory, and that it was unjust.

It is entertaining but the non-academic reader has no idea who most of these writers are, and Eagleton's comments are too perfunctory to illuminate their thought or to encourage trust in his judgments upon them.

"My concern is that institutional level review will be too perfunctory or, even worse, that NSABB will leave dual-use matters in the hands of individual PIs," says Ed Hammond of the Oakland, California-based Sunshine Project, a bioweapons watchdog group.

To date, exchanges of views between Parliament's ECON Committee and certain international bodies have been too perfunctory and superficial.

I'm with Ax when he says, "I think that if there were no 'rules' about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always". At the same time, the prevailing atmosphere is too humdrum, too perfunctory.

Most private schools require students to do community service, but it is too often perfunctory, without any restraining effect on children's second-generation craving for Betsey Johnson sundresses, candy-colored Nokias and iPods.

It's not a masterpiece - the exposition is too protracted, the denouement too perfunctory.

But circumstantial evidence of official connivance "with a wink and a nod" in the conduct of foreign policy by private individuals is too strong to brush off with perfunctory denials.