Sentence examples for perfunctory form from inspiring English sources

After his four years of dedicated service, Donovan was dismissed with a perfunctory form letter. Yet Donovan did not have to wait long to see his dream of a central intelligence agency realized.

The retirement was quietly announced in rather perfunctory form as part of Nintendo's financial results, but Eurogamer noticed and put together a little retrospective.

Once back in the holding pen, Amber and I filled out the perfunctory release forms as the rest of our group showed up.

It's not perfect – the storyline is a bit perfunctory, its free-form style can be illusory when it forces you to perform certain missions and it gets a bit repetitious in the latter stages.

And some are perfunctory, of course.

The study found that 88percentt of 335 randomly selected Web sites had some kind of privacy disclosure, varying from a perfunctory notice that says "this is a secure order form" to something more detailed.

After their father's sudden death and the revelation of his free-form accounting, Edward's brothers profess perfunctory shock and dismay.

If we allow ourselves the power of an independent imagination -- thought-forms that don't flow in a perfunctory manner from ancient assumptions merely handed down to us, but rather flower into new archetypal images of a humanity just getting started at 45 or 50.

In general, perfunctory displays of obeisance to authority or hierarchy in any form struggle to take root here.

ISIS's ideology – and let's not pretend the government's proposals are about other forms of extremism, or other groups, despite the usual perfunctory noises about right-wing terrorism – must be countered.

On this count, the studios are very well done indeed: they're small, rough-hewn buildings, almost as simple as their neighbors but with forms and touches that keep them from seeming pious or perfunctory.