Sentence examples for perfunctory affairs from inspiring English sources

The trials were perfunctory affairs, some lasting less than five minutes.

ANNUAL shareholder meetings in the United States can be perfunctory affairs, but those abroad are often far different.

While Chad is technically a democracy, its presidential elections have been perfunctory affairs in which Mr. Déby won a huge majority in polls marred by serious irregularities.

Mozart was a particular blind spot - Gould once claimed the composer had died too late rather than too early - and the four albums of sonatas here, as well as a performance of the C minor Piano Concerto, are rather perfunctory affairs that no one would want to hear too often.

and engages in a relatively perfunctory affair with one passenger.

The karaoke memorial is a low-key, almost perfunctory affair whose dominant mood is a sad sense of shared community.

As the story begins, he's engaged in a perfunctory affair with a much younger employee, who accuses him of harassment when he breaks things off.

It's a perfunctory affair, further fragmented on my download version by the muting of Wayne's stream of expletives, which renders large parts of it unintelligible.

The police investigation appears to have been a perfunctory affair, and only members of the Royal Military police were permitted to interview the troops involved.

Glass's 2012 Overture is a slightly perfunctory affair, rousing enough on its own terms, but not a major statement by any means.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work…all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.