Instead, like many residents before me, I catch myself going through the motions of care perfunctorily -- doing physical exams, rounding, and writing prescriptions despite knowing that I cannot give back to my patients their identities and their lives before their tragic illnesses.
Many doctors only work perfunctorily and do not talk with patients.
I hadn't heard of the phrase MAILS IN with respect to "Does perfunctorily, as a performance".
That same hearty spirit animates Caesar salad, a dish that most restaurants do perfunctorily if at all.
A land commission perfunctorily set aside two reserves for the Ndebele on poor soils.
I appreciate the idea, but come back when you've done more than execute it perfunctorily.
They do, but perfunctorily.
7 There is a serious question whether the jurisdictional issue now before us was fully considered by the division in many of the cases to which reference is made; certainly none of the awards did more than recite perfunctorily that the division had jurisdiction over the particular dispute.
Between sets, we sometimes did chat, but only perfunctorily.
Only toward the end of the book does Bruder reckon, and then perfunctorily, with the fact that the workamper phenomenon she describes is limited almost exclusively to white people.
Dilla did his fair share of perfunctorily functional grooves, but at his most creative he deconstructed the rhythm, placing the booms and baps, hi hats and claps, in an off-relationship to each other, clustered too close or coming in too late, but always retaining a ghostly relationship to hip-hop feel.
