Sentence examples for perfunctory interview from inspiring English sources

Savile was given only a "perfunctory" interview, conducted on his terms at Stoke Mandeville ("not good practice") and with a friend present, about whose status officers did not inquire.

The district attorney, he said, has done only a perfunctory interview with Rizzo.

The district attorney, he said, has done only a perfunctory interview with Rizzo, who agreed to cooperate with authorities after entering his no-contest plea.

After wowing the managers with my journalistic credentials (two articles in a high school newspaper) and a very perfunctory interview, I was duly furnished with a work visa, desk, computer, and stack of business cards that identified me as a "Copy Editor/Reporter".

Pettersen said his colleagues perform only the most perfunctory interviews with refugees, before putting them on one of the twice-daily planes to the immigration police in Oslo.

In addition, his report said Pricewaterhouse monitors received most of their information from managers, not workers, and did perfunctory interviews with workers inside the factory instead of in-depth interviews outside, where workers would probably talk more openly.

In Paris, Klingberg gave perfunctory interviews to the media and then went to ground, refusing to meet even academics writing Cold War histories, though he undoubtedly had much to contribute.

In what is known as Case Three, the co-investigating judges conducted only perfunctory interviews of witnesses and visits to alleged crime sites and did not inform the potential defendants, both accused of being senior Khmer Rouge military commanders, according to a detailed report released Tuesday by the Open Society Justice Initiative, an independent legal and human rights advocacy group.

So, too, after only perfunctory consultation, did his fellow citizens.

At least, this is how the four very drunk witnesses said it went down in perfunctory police interviews conducted before they scattered into the night.

Nevertheless, only a few days after the exuberance of her release, she sounded weary, perfunctory and even curt during the interview, saying, "I don't want to talk about it," when pressed about her feelings about her reunion with her son.