"Is there another hotel near you," I asked, almost perfunctorily.
When my car was new and shiny, its utter lack of any extras including a radio announced: "Grad student!" Now that the purple paint is peeling off the hood, it screams: "Poor person!" Leaning over, the cop peers into my car and asks perfunctorily, "How you folks doin' today?" (Translation: Are you lowlifes getting up to mischief?).
He was lying in his living room, too weak from the developing leukemia to sit up, unwilling to speak of disease or goodbyes, asking for a blanket, asking perfunctorily where I was going next in Florence, his frail hand in my hand.
Ask, ask and ask questions!
(The report perfunctorily mentions these issues, but its math doesn't appear to take them into account).
Loy isn't particularly vulnerable, and she isn't dominant, either; she's so cool and airy she doesn't take the initiative, and since he doesn't, either (except perfunctorily), nothing happens.
They do, but perfunctorily.
And art is treated perfunctorily.
Ed Miliband is mentioned five times, perfunctorily.
Emily began thanking her stepdaughter perfunctorily.
When he had finished, he perfunctorily added: "Thank you.
