Sentence examples for only perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Europe has rated only perfunctory mention.

She offered only perfunctory remarks at yesterday's fund-raiser.

Most important, perhaps, the suspects had only perfunctory conversations with outsiders.

(Woolsey told me that he had only "perfunctory involvement" with the Flynn Intel Group and "received no compensation").

But because her accompaniment is so spare (there's no bass and only perfunctory piano backing), her act seems musically incomplete.

Not knowing the identity of the King he did not rise to greet him and showed him only perfunctory courtesy.

Her outward appearance is just perfunctory".

He needed only the perfunctory confirmation of the association's members.

But the resulting settlement gave banks only a perfunctory slap on the wrist, and only token assistance to the homeowners.

Berg gives us little on the vital economic debates of the Progressive Era, and only a perfunctory comparison of Wilson's "New Freedom" and Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism".

We pile into the car in a state of well being and drive past Noel Coward's house with only a perfunctory replay of the earlier conversation.