In fact, "Velocity" as a whole is a much slighter, more perfunctory performance than that earlier book -- less inventive, less daring, less affecting and less intense.
With her right arm stretched out in front of her, like an old-time fullback stiff-arming would-be tacklers, she cleared a path through the crowd without so much as a perfunctory, "Sorry".
It is both too heavily trailed and too much put off, too perfunctory and too dilatory, too defensive and too aggressive.
The finale, however, is perfunctory after much that has gone before, and it seems odd that Bellini, among the greatest of all composers of recitative, should kick-start his operatic career with a work that deploys spoken dialogue.
His relationship with Sally is often perfunctory, so much so that when Sally casually said she loved him, it broke Don's heart.
Much of the review is perfunctory, but there are numerous nuances to N.F.L. timing that the average fan would not notice.
Meanwhile, Beidahuang continues to prepare the reports in a rather perfunctory manner, without much effort made even in terms of wording.
"We go through the perfunctory things so much, putting on our suits and ties, and putting on our titles, that we don't get to talk about humanity and life.
As the story begins, he's engaged in a perfunctory affair with a much younger employee, who accuses him of harassment when he breaks things off.
Huxley's ignorance of this fact may not in fact have mattered much, in light of his rather perfunctory and dismissive analysis of the adult Engis specimen.
