Sentence examples for perfunctory attention from inspiring English sources

Editors who had felt ho-hum about the real stuff started giving it more than perfunctory attention.

Even her victory speech in Kentucky, shown live on cable news, was given perfunctory attention — a footnote to someone else's page in history.

But in negotiations in 1918-19 leading up to the Treaty of Versailles, only the most perfunctory attention was given to the long-term effect of the distribution of the spoils.

But that hardly seemed like enough of a reason to explain why this month's most extravagant scandals are receiving little more than perfunctory attention in China, compared to the reaction among the other four-fifths of humanity.

Unfortunately, the equation doesn't balance - Israel is thoroughly dislikable, the mystery gets only the most perfunctory attention and the most prevalent sensation is of the author's gentle contempt for his setting and his characters.

This, however, seems a poor excuse for paying such perfunctory attention to the main plot — Liam's romance with Eunice — because the complete implausibility of that story line makes for a flimsy and unsatisfying novel, a novel quite unworthy of this gifted author's talents.

The prince scurried along, a perfunctory nod, no attention paid to the children with the players who would have loved 10 seconds of his time or a pat on the head.

Established by Auberon Waugh in 1993, its purpose is to draw attention to "perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them", with former winners including Sebastian Faulks, AA Gill and Melvyn Bragg.

After perfunctory introductions, she turned her attention to friends at the table.

If the appetizers seem a little perfunctory, the pastas deserve close attention, especially cavatelli with hot and sweet sausage tossed with San Marzano tomatoes, ricotta-stuffed ravioli in a rosemary-accented white wine sauce, and penne with rock shrimp, pumpkin, scallions and tomato.

The point of the prize is to draw readers' attention to "poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them".