Sentence examples for its perfunctory from inspiring English sources
Its perfunctory splotches and smears, on a yellowish ground, indicate the wide door, the fake showerheads, and the floor drain in the awful room.
Everyone knows Neuschwanstein, the fairytale Bavarian Schloss that inspired Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, but millions queue for its (perfunctory) tour every year.
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 theme of the much anticipated prom is "Titanic Dreams," and it inspires a slapstick finale that nearly rescues the movie from the watery grave of its perfunctory and meretricious happy ending.
Tom Connolly's Men Like Air completes this year's line-up, selected for its perfunctory airport sex scene: "He watched her passport rise gradually out of the back pocket of her jeans in time with the rhythmic bobbing of her buttocks as she sucked him.
Its perfunctory pro-equality screeds sit uneasily in a book that invents a New Guinean contractor patrol in 2003 Baghdad, which he refers to as a "grass-skirted cadre of cannibals," and nicknames a black teenage girl who lives with a predatory older man "juvie Jemima".
Its characters are ciphers, its setting is perfunctory, and its violence is stylized.
Its brief, perfunctory sexual interlude is the cause of endless, highly stylized brutality.
Its humid, iridescently coloured CGI animal kingdom is a thing of lurid beauty, practically an animated marvel itself; its fairly perfunctory narrative and voice work go camouflaged by the foliage.
Brahms himself called it "the lullaby of all my griefs", but the audience's attention may wander in the middle section, with its rather perfunctory development, before the radiant tune returns.The incidence of such moments has continued to give critics pause.
It's not perfect – the storyline is a bit perfunctory, its free-form style can be illusory when it forces you to perform certain missions and it gets a bit repetitious in the latter stages.
