But the team's interest was considered more perfunctory than serious.
The baby bass, the second-most-expensive item on offer, is more perfunctory than memorable.
As the exhibition catalog documents, visually and through van Gogh's comments, these second works are often smaller and more perfunctory than the first version.
The upbeat songs in the opening set, Debussy's "Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse," were more perfunctory than lively, and she sang "Apparition" with Puccinian overstatement rather than mysterious delicacy.
Although Mr. Meredith's writing style is more perfunctory than last time, he conveys the delicate manipulations that led to the Anglo-Boer War.
It was a fine gesture and beautifully executed, though — shorn of its sectional repeats — the piece sounded a bit more perfunctory than it needed to be in a relatively short program.
Mickey's romance with teenage Kate Foster, anxious to unburden herself of her virginity, is touching and well-observed, even if I had the persistent feeling that her first time might be a little more perfunctory than earth-shattering.
Apart from Cora, the secondary characters are more perfunctory than inspired, though Kristen Johnston has some juicy, unhinged moments as Sophie's older sister, whose fan-crush on Alex has hardly cooled since the mid-'80s, despite marriage and motherhood.
By extending their reach into a seemingly mundane aspect of life in the N.B.A. — nothing, after all, is more perfunctory than walking into work — the networks created a new channel of communication, player to fan, and, therefore, gradually relinquished a measure of their own power.
But their position seems to be more perfunctory than anything else.
