The president and the first lady were warmly received at the bipartisan breakfast, one of the few places where Democrats and Republicans exchange more than perfunctory pleasantries these days.
The perfunctory blowouts of those days are no longer the norm.
Yet after the demonstrative murder of Markelov and Baburova, no Russian official attended the victims' funerals, and both Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin remained silent for nine days before Medvedev expressed perfunctory regrets in a meeting with Dmitri Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta, and Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the newspaper's shareholders.
Mr. Jobs wrote back within 30 minutes, and though the reply was perfunctory, it still made Mr. Söderlund's day — and then echoed around the world, after he forwarded the exchange to a blog devoted to Apple news.
Miller's departure after seven days of growing pressure following her perfunctory apology to the Commons last week triggered a mini-reshuffle.
Kundiawa opens its Family Support Centre Little did Sister OpaTugo know that her perfunctory remarks to a challenge after a two-day workshop on child protection in August of 2007 would trigger a chain of events... Email this article.
15 October 2009 Little did Sister OpaTugo know that her perfunctory remarks to a challenge after a two-day workshop on child protection in August of 2007 would trigger a chain of events leading to the establishment of a Family Support Centre (FSC) at the Kundiawa Hospital.
These days, their conversations tended to be brief and perfunctory.
The next day she discovers that despite their dispassionate and perfunctory encounter, she is madly in love.
Nevertheless, only a few days after the exuberance of her release, she sounded weary, perfunctory and even curt during the interview, saying, "I don't want to talk about it," when pressed about her feelings about her reunion with her son.
