Sentence examples for perfunctory hearing from inspiring English sources

When she appeared in court, it was to face a grim judge and perfunctory hearing.

The Parliament, overwhelmingly controlled by United Russia, the party loyal to Mr. Putin, voted 352 to 58 to confirm Mr. Fradkov, with 24 abstentions, after a perfunctory hearing that included only nine questions.

The cases included those of Mr. Krueger, who criticized the system as insufficiently rigorous after winning back his gun rights in a perfunctory hearing, and of another man whose petition was approved without even a hearing, even though his felony involved pulling a gun on a man.

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the principal sponsor, has scheduled a perfunctory hearing on Sept. 5; after that he wants to begin pushing a bill through the committee that would criminalize the unauthorized disclosure of any type of classified information by federal employees.

After several minutes of uncomfortable silence, you should begin to hear sighing, yawning, and perfunctory offers to help with the dishes.

With Haydn and Mozart missing in action, and with a solid but rather perfunctory Beethoven festival (of which I heard only one program), Mr. Maazel's true tastes seem to lie in Germanic repertory from Schubert through Strauss.

Mozart was a particular blind spot - Gould once claimed the composer had died too late rather than too early - and the four albums of sonatas here, as well as a performance of the C minor Piano Concerto, are rather perfunctory affairs that no one would want to hear too often.

How many times have you heard the expression "PR darling!", as if our work is perfunctory and can be executed without much thought?

His writing on science or politics can feel perfunctory, but his prose grows richer when describing what he sees and hears in his travels: the "ragged and hard-used look" of the earth near one abandoned mine, the "monotone fugue" of the pumps that keep another from flooding.

Still, through much of the set Mr. Legrand seemed to be warding off a sense of perfunctory proficiency: the downside, perhaps, of sticking to the songs that everybody wants to hear.

You are unlikely to hear the name of Theodore Roosevelt praised by Republicans or of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the Democrats, except in perfunctory terms (It was FDR, after all, who said he feared government by money as much as government by the mob).