Sentence examples for perfunctory of from inspiring English sources

And some are perfunctory, of course.

Trump, for his part, could claim that he had raised the question of Russian interference, even if he did so only in the most perfunctory of fashions.

Apart from the most perfunctory of gestures in the general direction of pear, it doesn't taste or smell of much at all.

Finally materialising in an electric-blue leather jumpsuit, Stone gave the most perfunctory of speeches, muttered 'See ya soon', and disappeared into the night.

Officers, sometimes hired with only the most perfunctory of background examinations — as Kansas officials said was the case with Mr. Sullivan — and frequently without even having their fingerprints checked, often end up in new trouble, according to a review of court documents, personnel records and interviews with former colleagues and other law enforcement officials.

Ultimately, disability is only described in the most perfunctory of ways.

In part, this, too, seems to be a function of the show's perfunctory consideration of the lushness of the novel.

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.

"These kinds of haphazard, perfunctory assessments of people with complicated disabilities result in the Andrew Goldsteins," she said, referring to the schizophrenic man convicted of pushing a woman off a subway platform to her death.

There are perfunctory hints of childhood fantasies of being a hero, like Lawrence of Arabia.

After a perfunctory denial of reports out of England, the Red Bulls confirmed what most of the soccer world already knew: the Major League Soccer club had acquired midfielder Tim Cahill, 32, from Everton of England's Premier League.