Sentence examples for over a cursory from inspiring English sources

The continuity of such musical numbers as "All Aboard for Broadway" and "Twentieth Century Love," during which years go by in one choreographically sustained interlude, is lovely proof of how musical expertise can sail right over a cursory book, of how musical comedy can develop through music and dance.

This decade of Dubos's scientific work is glossed over in a cursory manor.

Barely has the plane taken off and they've pressed the button and reclined to the max without even a cursory over-the-shoulder glance.

Somebody should have given a 75-year-old stadium that accommodates more than two million fans every year more than a cursory once-over.

They called Shipman, who gave Mrs Grundy's body a cursory once-over and pronounced her dead, later to certifying that her cause of death was old age.

While they have been maintained as exhibitions, it has been years since a qualified flight inspector gave them even a cursory go-over for flight.

The fans booed, but Sabathia accepted the decision quietly, walking off the mound with only a cursory glance over his shoulder.

A cursory glance over the border gives a sense of the fiscal situation facing Scottish local authorities in the near future.

A cursory glance over the business headlines for the past few years announces huge password or PII thefts from organisations ranging from Sony PlayStation to eBay and Facebook to JP Morgan.

You can let the wire rack soak for really sticky messes (say, melted chocolate you drizzled over cookies) and then do a cursory scrub with a sponge to get rid of any remaining clinging bits.

Then they probably give a cursory glance over the teacher's comments before tossing the paper in the nearest trash can.