Sentence examples for perfunctory appearances from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.

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.

Trump, by contrast, made only a very brief, almost perfunctory, public appearance, posing for a photograph at the King memorial in Washington.

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.

But the nastiness he faces - loosely based on the fascist nastiness of the real Cable Street and on police corruption and torture everywhere - is unusually nasty for Pratchett, and Death's appearances are only perfunctory and not consoling.

Her outward appearance is just perfunctory".