Sentence examples for perfunctory answer from inspiring English sources

Mr. MacAskill said he had received a perfunctory answer this summer when he wrote to Jack Straw, justice minister in the Brown government, asking the government to "make representations or provide information" regarding the proposed release.

He received a perfunctory response from an Air Force aide.

Refusing at first to be sworn in, Mr. Powell finally agreed to answer some perfunctory questions, but balked when he was asked about the contempt citations and his committee chairmanship.

It's as though a rambunctious drama inspired by Sam Shepard has tried to answer the perfunctory plot concerns of a movie studio executive.

Moderator David Stratton keeps things moving along, but rarely digs deeper than "What was it like to make this film?" His desire to namecheck every film Lynch has worked on means there's really only time for one question per project, and most answers are necessarily perfunctory.

The Six Nations refused to answer questions at a perfunctory media conference, while Pierre Camou, president of the French Rugby Federation, implicitly blamed the referee.

During the question-and-answer period, he gave perfunctory responses to a series of questions, and seemed most engaged when the conversation turned to domestic policy.

Her response: a perfunctory "file a ticket".

But for the most part this is rewardingly engaging fare, made all the more likable by Wiig's apparent reluctance to answer the inevitable calls for a perfunctory sequel.

She never says where she is, and mainly answers his e-mails with a perfunctory "Thank you for thinking of me.

But, after answering a few more questions in a perfunctory manner, Valet exits upstage center through a kind of gate leading into a dark space.