Sentence examples for perfunctory communication from inspiring English sources

The lawyer's "perfunctory communication" fell short of the constitutional requirement of adequate representation, the judge said.

The two are joined by an intercom system that is used for perfunctory communication ("Shall we have sex?"; "Can you fix the boiler?"), and joined by a spiral staircase that resembles a gigantic helix of DNA, adding to the sense that the house is an organic object.

Leading a community in worship can't become perfunctory.

By extending their reach into a seemingly mundane aspect of life in the N.B.A. — nothing, after all, is more perfunctory than walking into work — the networks created a new channel of communication, player to fan, and, therefore, gradually relinquished a measure of their own power.

Then there is the concern that officers assigned to the new task will have only perfunctory training for a job that requires a complex understanding of psychology and human behavior and excellent communication skills.

As in the previous story, there is a lack of real communication between characters, and sex is only ever a tool to be used in the most perfunctory way.

SERVICE Perfunctory.

There's the perfunctory.

"Rape is perfunctory," he says.

The Fosse homage appears perfunctory.

So things become disappointingly perfunctory.