Sentence examples for perfunctory dialogue from inspiring English sources
Stuck with perfunctory dialogue ("If you walk out that door, you're never coming back!" etc), the cast struggle to sell us on what starts to feel like a low-rent stage production.
Instead, The Times printed a one-paragraph critical synopsis of the film, also written by Sublett, which said in full: "Puerile dialogue, perfunctory acting and haphazard construction doom from the start this visually impressive would-be epic about love and dead Reds in wartime Korea.
The dialogue is perfunctory, almost tedious: the recitation of how an 8-year-old girl killed a cat, of how a man got smushed under a truck; requests for tea, for meals, as communicated via a dumb waiter that, given its context, reads more like a guillotine.
How many of us are able to get from the five minute pleasantries and perfunctory to a deeper, more meaningful dialogue on a consistent basis?
Although there dialogue is short and perfunctory, their energies are anything but; the love-at-first-sight narrative is remarkably believable because of the restraint and paucity with which the actors handle the scene.
While interesting plot, characters and dialogue are increasingly common in more adult games, such elements are perfunctory in most platformers.
The service is perfunctory.
SERVICE -- Charmless and perfunctory.
Perfunctory ones at that.
