Sentence examples for perfunctory appearance from inspiring English sources

It was a quick, perfunctory appearance.

He told Doug, 'You know, this isn't my thing.' "After Bush's first, perfunctory appearance, Clinton telephoned Coe to console him.

There is scant encouragement to integration in Updike's fiction of the period, where black people put in mostly perfunctory appearances, as in old movies.

In 1990, Mrs. Whitman, then a longshot challenger to Senator Bill Bradley, felt snubbed by the Bush family, Ms. Beard said: then-President Bush made only a perfunctory campaign appearance with Mrs. Whitman at the Newark airport while traveling to New York.

Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.

But when the FBI recently banged down doors in Silicon Valley to nab insider trading defendants, San Francisco federal prosecutors found themselves making perfunctory court appearances on bail, before the cases were shipped back East for the heftier legal battles.

Wilpon said that "we don't want to trade on the Dodgers -- we want to fit into this community," and at perfunctory glance, the appearances supported the notion.

The Fosse homage appears perfunctory.

Her outward appearance is just perfunctory".

Zuckerberg's public appearances have seemed similarly perfunctory.

As for best film, a yelp of dismay, however futile and perfunctory, has to be sounded at the non-appearance in this category of Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven.