Sentence examples for perfunctory in from inspiring English sources

Were prospective employers too perfunctory in making reference checks in an era when nurses are in short supply?

Using only WhatsApp, the contact follows an eerily similar pattern: perfunctory in tone and lacking in detail.

While interesting plot, characters and dialogue are increasingly common in more adult games, such elements are perfunctory in most platformers.

Faraday is perfunctory in his treatment of all the events of his life except his encounters with the Ayres family.

The post-Mahapadma genealogy of the Nanda dynasty is perfunctory in the Puranas, which mention only Sukalpa (Sahalya, Sumalya), while the Buddhist text Mahabodhivamsa enumerates eight names.

Offering to suggest a book based on one's last five reads, he was impressive in his range, perfunctory in his responses, and quick on the draw.

Visible brushstrokes in the paintings fascinate: whistle-while-you-work, perfunctory filling-in that goes carefully fussy at the edges of shapes.

There's a terrific documentary about one such case, the Detroit band Death whose sole album was released in a perfunctory edition in, I believe, 1975 and disappeared until a copy of it was digitised and made public on the internet.

As for J-Lo, she looks to be grinding through her set in the same perfunctory style in which she might submit to a colonic or inform a backing dancer she was marrying him.

While Chad is technically a democracy, its presidential elections have been perfunctory affairs in which Mr. Déby won a huge majority in polls marred by serious irregularities.

(Wolcott reports personal encounters with both writers: a "cool and perfunctory handshake" in the case of Oates, a "swift pair of averted glances" in Ford's).