Sentence examples for of the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

As a result, one detects a touch of the perfunctory in the family aspect of her tale, as well as a disinclination toward serious introspection.

Instead of the perfunctory dunk or layup that you'd expect from basically anybody else, Williamson took flight and started twirling in the air.

In a tight T-shirt, lace-up pants and eyeliner, he managed to appear both smug and glum, his performance carrying an air of the perfunctory about it.

Or was it because of the perfunctory assumption that the medium of television could not set off a revolution; that revolutions could only have their origin in politics, not mass entertainment.

Perhaps the lack of nourishment comes from the movie's pale recycling of "Eat Drink Man Woman," Ang Lee's domestic food fight of a movie, in which the menus served a crafty purpose: the growling of the audience's stomach drowned out some of the perfunctory conflicts in the storytelling.

It seems like any attempt to offer a critique on the basis of the perfunctory story (by George and John Gatins) and workmanlike performances is sort of missing the forest for the trees.

In this analysis, Weiner's failure to receive critical recognition is not an implicit judgment of, say, the perfunctory quality of some descriptive passages, or of the brittle mean-spiritedness that colors some character sketches.

The map that features Koscs Way was conceived by the book designer Mark Melnick as an inventive replacement for the perfunctory list of acknowledgments.

All of which background is pretty irrelevant, as from listening to 205 of them I have realised there are actually just two types of anthem: the perfunctory, lifeless ones, and those that make the effort to be different.

An even smaller proportion, about one in 10, appeared to engage in any kind of conversation beyond the perfunctory, though almost all said hello.

The tradition exists most notably in the ceremonies of arranged marriages and the perfunctory visits some of Mr. Upadhyay's characters pay to the city's temples.