Sentence examples for perfunctory description from inspiring English sources

Except for a few Spanish phrases, perfunctory description of gang members' clothes and scattered references to Mexican dishes and American barrios, most of the school stories could be about clique, rather than ethnic or class, conflict.

However, except for a perfunctory description based on the IOC surveillance programmes during the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, 1 3 there are no data available from the highest level of play.

Later, she offers perfunctory descriptions of the church's inner workings and recites tedious exchanges.

These perfunctory descriptions do not account for performances that are anything but perfunctory.

Using Bin Laden's mass murders as a plot device raises an even greater queasiness, especially as the dramatisation of the events is limited to perfunctory descriptions of people jumping off roofs or becoming engulfed in smoke.

Compared with this restaurant's offerings of just a year or two ago, recent menus have been dumbed down, with lackluster and perfunctory descriptions, more like a punch list for the cook than a menu created to excite the diner about the meal to come.

Talley also has the obligatory estranged wife and child, who are accorded the most perfunctory possible description.

There are things that happen, and characters who say words, but even the term "character" feels generous for what are essentially names on a page, each followed by a perfunctory two-sentence description.

But other descriptions feel more perfunctory.

At 10 by 20 feet, the size feels gratuitous, the composition slack and the descriptions of people perfunctory.

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".