Sentence examples for perfunctory about from inspiring English sources

But neither was there anything perfunctory about the performances or presentation.

It was a makeshift setting, but there was nothing stinting or perfunctory about his apology, and that made sense: there is nothing stinting or perfunctory about his golf game.

Yet there is something colourless about him and perfunctory about the speech.

In the event, the skittish opening exchanges of the series soon confounded any notion that there could ever be anything perfunctory about winning the Ashes.

Ms. Tyler situates the couple's story in a well-observed matrix of familial and work relationships, but there is something perfunctory about this novel's supporting cast as well.

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.

The Oxford English Dictionary tells me that "token" has meant "pro forma; (purely) symbolic; constituting a gesture (only); minimal, nominal, perfunctory" since about 1915, which is when the syllabus of modern English literature began to be consolidated in British and American universities.

There's some perfunctory narration about the danger of preconceptions, about how high school is a period of time with "more questions than answers".

In days gone by, when Christian and atheist alike were given so called Christian funerals, I came out of some services upset by the vicars' perfunctory words about someone they did not know and did not care about.

ISIS's ideology – and let's not pretend the government's proposals are about other forms of extremism, or other groups, despite the usual perfunctory noises about right-wing terrorism – must be countered.

There followed a perfunctory discussion about the outbreak of Dengue fever up the coast.