Sentence examples for mostly perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Another reflection of the team's fallen status is that media coverage is mostly perfunctory.

But in a mostly perfunctory history of socialism in Eastern Europe, Muller argues that "Judeo-Bolshevism" was a myth, promoted perhaps to malign the Communist movement.

There is scant encouragement to integration in Updike's fiction of the period, where black people put in mostly perfunctory appearances, as in old movies.

"Went down through Cataract Canyon last week, a five-day boat trip," was about as newsy as he got about his wilderness ramblings, and the world outside his door earned mostly perfunctory nods.

The decision, by Justice Louis B. York of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said that although state and city procedures require an environmental study, "the Council's entire legislative review process was mostly perfunctory, only occasionally rising to the level of cursory, with the operative word being alacrity rather than analysis".

They are at present the sole source aside from a few mostly perfunctory articles in newspapers and magazines from which it is possible for the world at large to form any idea of the interest and scope of the contents of the Dead Sea scrolls.

Mr. Leno breezed through his monologue with perfunctory, mostly comic mentions of the strike.

But Justice Rehnquist's files contain mostly un-illuminating draft opinions and perfunctory communications between the justices.

There were 10 in all — 9 for the parade, plus 1 spare — and Tharakan gave them a perfunctory exam; he was mostly checking for signs of musth, a hormonal condition that sexually mature males go through for two or three months a year.

Especially for people who throw up only a perfunctory Facebook page, the site seems mostly useful for entree points into the past — random hellos and what-are-you-up-tos and updates from people they once saw around campus or played kickball with in elementary school or sat next to in a cubicle for a few years back in the late 1990s.

What acting out and infighting there is on the show feels perfunctory and forced, perhaps because shooting is mostly a sport of microfocus and quiet concentration.