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12 Years A Slave triumphed thanks to its Important Subject Matter, Dallas Buyers Club's honours felt like the perfunctory conclusion of the "McConnaissance", and The Wolf of Wall Street (though admittedly an uneven film) was overlooked because the world suddenly decided that depiction equates to endorsement.
But as Gilgoff also says in his rather perfunctory conclusion, the religious right remains bedeviled by factional disputes, to the extent that Dobson admonished Richard Cizik, the chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, for drafting and circulating a petition demanding that the Bush administration address global warming.
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There's the perfunctory.
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So things become disappointingly perfunctory.
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