Sentence examples for perfunctory it from inspiring English sources

West's own take on the results is itself so perfunctory it could pass for a punch line: "Now I feel immensely better.

Sorkin's analysis is fairly perfunctory (it doesn't go much beyond the "seeds of disaster" coming "together to create the perfect storm"), but his action scenes are intimate and engaging.

Mr. Jobs wrote back within 30 minutes, and though the reply was perfunctory, it still made Mr. Söderlund's day — and then echoed around the world, after he forwarded the exchange to a blog devoted to Apple news.

In truth, the "crime" element of the book is perfunctory: it exists, I think, because Lawson believes readers are more inclined to be generous about characters they dislike if they can regard them as potential victims.

The final explanation is so perfunctory it could have been devised on the back of a napkin by M Night Shyamalan – though of course this absurdity, acknowledged with stoner fatalism, is part of the comedy.

Rousey did take a moment to acknowledge her loss to Holm, but it felt rushed and perfunctory: "It's the first time I'm talking to my fans since I lost to Holly Holm, in November, which, by the way, was a fight Holly deserved to win," she blurted out awkwardly.

And the level of research, well let's just say it's perfunctory] It's also the case however that "meta" has come to mean something grander, describing the process by which an artist creates a work that turns out to be within a work that, in turn, is within a work.

It's a conclusion that feels profound and perfunctory and it encapsulates the logic of the whole piece.

And "Waiting", a fast one to end, couldn't be more perfunctory if it had "keep the ratios up" stencilled across it.

Such folks will not find much to groove on in "Race to Witch Mountain" — the threat of Earth's destruction or colonization is so perfunctory that it doesn't rise to the level of allegory — but it will amuse some of their young counterparts until summertime.

Worse, it turns out the investigation was so narrow and ultimately so perfunctory that it's hard to understand what took 19 months to get such a meager result.