Sentence examples for perfunctory for from inspiring English sources

Although the sexual encounter that ensues is perfunctory for Babe, it is a rare pleasure for the young man, and as she finally senses this, Babe's affection for him takes on, for a while at least, a guilelessness that is equally rare for her.

When I first read the books and reached chapters where, say, Joffrey dies, I loved the feeling that Martin was somewhere gleefully pulling a party popper and shouting "Surprise!" I am predicting something more perfunctory for The Winds of Winter, where quite a few events (read: deaths) have already happened.

The following week, at a vocational training center run by a women's charitable society called Al Nahda, I watched as the instructor in a course for prospective saleswomen showed her students a wide smile, appropriate for female customers, and a split-second, perfunctory smile for men.

*We pull for all members of our team, yet we express only the most perfunctory cheers/applause for any player known to be an abusive jerk.

"It was way beyond the perfunctory solicitations for support".

Today is merely a perfunctory prelude for "Our Cathy," as the newspapers call her.

Tory backbenchers roused themselves into a perfunctory cheer for the PM at the end of the session.

It's a story of revenge: the traditional perfunctory pretext for martial arts - a unidimensional narrative motivation.

Probably assuming I wouldn't take him up on it, he once again extended a perfunctory invitation for me to visit.

Set in the bleak Pas de Calais, Mr Dumont's film describes a culpably perfunctory search for the killer of a child.

After perfunctory praise for government research, he said again that too little is being done, officially, to fight AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it.