Sentence examples for perfunctory for the from inspiring English sources
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.
Tory backbenchers roused themselves into a perfunctory cheer for the PM at the end of the session.
Set in the bleak Pas de Calais, Mr Dumont's film describes a culpably perfunctory search for the killer of a child.
A1 Vice President Al Gore expressed perfunctory support for the China trade agreement, reading a statement in front of a labor group that opposes the China bill.
The two gave a perfunctory apology for the killings that wiped out at least 1.5 million at a press conference yesterday.
It was a perfunctory victory for the home side but they should expect more trouble from Borussia Mönchengladbach when their Champions League campaign resumes on Wednesday.
More of a punch line than soda at this point, Mountain Dew seemed an obvious, if not perfunctory sacrifice for the bong.
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.
After a week of denunciation in China's English-language media, with most journals silent about the award except for perfunctory quotes from the foreign ministry, the country's Chinese-language media launched a concerted assault on Liu and the award, accompanied by renewed attacks in the English-language media.
Vice President Al Gore voiced perfunctory support today for the China trade agreement, reading a statement in front of a labor group that opposes the China bill and is rallying in Washington against it.
The novel could have been a surreal and vivid affair about love and difference but, instead, it is oddly perfunctory, a sketch for the painting that never got made.
