Sentence examples similar to perfunctory cut from inspiring English sources
(Why does Hunt do those backflips before landing a blow?) SEX Hunt and Nyah repair to the boudoir, but sexually these two make an arid pair in a perfunctory cut-to-morning session fit for a PG-13.
The bare-bones DVD and superior Blu-ray editions both feature a perfunctory "extended cut" that adds seven minutes to the theatrical running time, although frankly an abridgement would have been far more welcome.
Not even a perfunctory attempt is made to cut America's defence spending.
The people in Opie's show, with their cut-out hairstyles and perfunctory noses, all belong in the same world.
His discussions of the high life in this book are perfunctory — except for one bizarre reference to "a cut-velvet burgundy and black Badgley Mischka" (it's a dress) in which his wife looked especially fetching — while a discourse on the economics of the tin can brims with the excitement of discovery.
There were only perfunctory mentions of health care, climate change, or the tax cut that Republicans had passed earlier that year.
Bella, interpreting for the visitors, believed for a brief moment that she could have anything — all she needed was to want — but that blissful feeling was cut short by Miss Chu, who was walking across the lawn without casting even the most perfunctory glance at the visitors or at Bella.
Perfunctory ones at that.
