Sentence examples for perfunctory execution from inspiring English sources
After having her hands and pelt sized up by a severe madame, she did manage to avoid the perfunctory execution that befell her counterparts, but comments like, "And what is it you think you're volunteering for, love?" do not bode well.
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work…all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
In a statement that became a credo of conceptual art, LeWitt wrote in Artforum magazine in 1967: In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work…all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
"Just having someone to really tell your story at the time of sentencing and not doing just a perfunctory job does seem to help," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, in Washington, which opposes execution.
After a perfunctory trial, which could last all of three to five minutes, prisoners were taken to the left or to the right: imprisonment or execution.
Perfunctory ones at that.
The references are perfunctory.
