Sentence examples for it's perfunctory from inspiring English sources

And the level of research, well let's just say it's perfunctory] It's also the case however that "meta" has come to mean something grander, describing the process by which an artist creates a work that turns out to be within a work that, in turn, is within a work.

It's perfunctory, right?

Yet the response was as cold as it was perfunctory.

The initial breakout wasn't a serious attempt — it was perfunctory, at best — but at least it made a statement, at least it was a beginning.

In a scathing opinion piece in The Washington Post, Jonathan Bernstein writes of "a generic speech and a generic convention for a generic Republican candidate", adding that "everything in it was perfunctory".

Everything else about him is perfunctory.

Its characters are ciphers, its setting is perfunctory, and its violence is stylized.

Opera can be tradition-minded, it can also be entertaining escapism, but it should never be perfunctory.

The music is recognisably Dexys, endlessly quoting from 1960s soul and pop songs, but it's also perfunctory, happy to mooch along aimlessly beneath Rowland's monologues.

He chose not to take it: the speech was perfunctory (just 20 minutes) and largely confined to the same five promises that he had campaigned on.

It's a perfunctory affair, further fragmented on my download version by the muting of Wayne's stream of expletives, which renders large parts of it unintelligible.