Sentence examples for perfunctory interest from inspiring English sources

Unlike many middle-class blacks, she refused to take even a perfunctory interest in the politics of civil rights.

Even apart from his language difficulties, this isn't easy, for most of the visitors have only a perfunctory interest in him and his affairs.

But anyone coming fresh to this series might wonder why he takes only perfunctory interest in the psychology of his villains.

However when sex is the primary concern when it forgoes even a perfunctory interest in the music or your mates, when it becomes a "hunt"—that's when it begins to cause problems.

But there she is, providing the perfunctory love interest in a low-budget feature meant for Saturday morning children's matinees, playing against a good-looking but gawky young man who a few years later would become one of the biggest stars in the business, John Wayne.

But the team's interest was considered more perfunctory than serious.

And Mr. Anderson's thesis suffers at times from overextending itself; a chapter near the end, with sections about KitchenAid and Lego, feels like a perfunctory attempt to give a more general-interest veneer to a book about entertainment and the news media.

Paul Verhoeven's black-comic gem from 1987 has been remade – which is to say, all the wit has been removed and it's been turned into a dumbed-down shoot-em-up frontloaded with elaborate but perfunctory new "satirical" material in which the movie loses interest with breathtaking speed.

But we do not yet have enough evidence to conclude that Mr. Perry has been winnowed out, or that his interest in remaining in the race is merely perfunctory.

His interest was concentrated on central figures; his backgrounds are perfunctory.

In her down time she engages in passive, perfunctory sex with a string of random partners, none of whom interest her.