Sentence examples for perfunctory action from inspiring English sources

We're stuck with a nondescript Mr Big, however, and the perfunctory action climaxes with a submarine-base shootout that screams "direct-to-DVD".

While the opening act has only perfunctory action beats, there is an extended chase scene about 40-minutes in that is truly eye-popping.

The self-conscious underworld lingo is full of profanity; there is a smattering of violence and some perfunctory bedroom action.

The action is perfunctory and at no point does anyone, I dunno, fight on a street, for money.

The hostess is personable; her actions more than perfunctory.

People need to learn to use email in a way that's personable, not just "Action this by EOP, regards" perfunctory.

With Haydn and Mozart missing in action, and with a solid but rather perfunctory Beethoven festival (of which I heard only one program), Mr. Maazel's true tastes seem to lie in Germanic repertory from Schubert through Strauss.

Your thank you should not be perfunctory, but it should show that the person's action really made a difference.

"He never said he regretted his actions or said in even the most perfunctory way he was sorry".

Even the boos and hisses from the audience were perfunctory whenever board members spoke in favor of raising the fare — an action that, of course, they took with a heavy heart and a troubled soul and so on and so forth.

Another context factor was related to the patient's non-verbal presentation: incessant coughing, or severe paleness were informative symptoms that did not require more than perfunctory additional questions, before the GP decided on further diagnostic and therapeutic actions.