Sentence examples for perfunctory air from inspiring English sources
Other companies do not dance so quickly and most of the cast raced through the solos with a perfunctory air.
Lanky frame hunched over his guitar, he rattles through the short, fuzzy songs with a vaguely perfunctory air, which still can't detract from the melodic richness of Bit Part or Alison's Starting to Happen.
Fans stand in communion with the act onstage, who recognizes them with the perfunctory air of a rock star grabbing the mic and saying, "It is great to be in" – pauses, looks at paper on the back of the guitar – "Tampa!
Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in Esquire magazine disagreed, writing that "You Only Live Twice has a decidedly perfunctory air.
Yes, there is a final act, a resurrection of sorts -- or perhaps reincarnation, with Wynton Marsalis arriving like a jazz Dalai Lama, after the deaths of Ellington and Armstrong -- but it is too perfunctory to dispel the air of gloom.
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.
Perfunctory efforts were made to curb air pollution, but little enforcement of existing legislation was undertaken once the war began.
Tom Connolly's Men Like Air completes this year's line-up, selected for its perfunctory airport sex scene: "He watched her passport rise gradually out of the back pocket of her jeans in time with the rhythmic bobbing of her buttocks as she sucked him.
I have my issues with "The Comeback"; its broader aspects grate on me, its characterizations are often perfunctory at best and stereotypical at worst, and it can be hard to take its air of self-congratulation.
