(Check out those cute ethnic locutions: "Dio mio!," "Madonn'!") After a few fights that might merit an award for Most Perfunctory Mean Banter Before Guards Are Dropped in a Love Story, they swoon.
For example, adequate processes might mean a perfunctory activity is conducted annually to meet listing requirements or pay lip service to best practice governance.
The SEC further concluded that the voting rights associated with the DAO Tokens were limited and that token holders therefore held no "meaningful control over the enterprise" because their voting rights were largely "perfunctory" and holders had very limited means to communicate with each other.
And though he danced, the moves were perfunctory, as if he didn't quite mean them.
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.
He wonders what it all meant: "the staring, the chummy-chummy hug, the perfunctory two kisses...all the talk of lying low?
In this analysis, Weiner's failure to receive critical recognition is not an implicit judgment of, say, the perfunctory quality of some descriptive passages, or of the brittle mean-spiritedness that colors some character sketches.
They looked as though they were meant to be worn exclusively indoors, with a thin, almost perfunctory sole glued to the bottom of the sheepskin uppers.
The Oxford English Dictionary tells me that "token" has meant "pro forma; (purely) symbolic; constituting a gesture (only); minimal, nominal, perfunctory" since about 1915, which is when the syllabus of modern English literature began to be consolidated in British and American universities.
Glass's 2012 Overture is a slightly perfunctory affair, rousing enough on its own terms, but not a major statement by any means.
