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Recently I was talking with a friend and dropped the word "perfunctory" on him when talking about someone's speaking style.

He said the script "has a more lyrical bent, and a more satiric bite, than any of the other Saw sequels" and called the acting "perfunctory on most fronts".

Perfunctory ones at that.

To watch Ms. Dombasle's sloppy, poorly sung concert at the Supper Club on Tuesday evening was to encounter a performer smugly content to express herself with perfunctory hand-on-hip wriggles, gaudy costume changes (from black to gold lamé to tan) and inane patter.

Much of Mr. Blagojevich's role here was routine, announcing the Pledge of Allegiance and asking people to note the arriving color guard, but even some perfunctory matters took on a special strangeness given the circumstances.

Sophy does emerge with a better grip on her life, but because she hasn't really faced up to the impulsive self-absorption that got her into her fix in the first place, her internal changes, the lessons she has learned, seem tacked on, perfunctory, and just a touch maudlin.

The group sounded perfunctory only on themes by Benny Carter and Billy Strayhorn, and even then, Ms. Anderson soldiered on.

At his swearing-in he gave the king a perfunctory peck on the shoulder, not a full bow-and-kiss on the hand.

He gives us three perfunctory paragraphs about on-demand technologies, a sentence or two on basic cable's dual revenue stream, and a couple of passing mentions of HBO.

Guards at shopping centres like Westgate only ever performed perfunctory checks on visitors.

The Arizona Corrections Department, Ms. Hamm said, has run perfunctory checks on visitors for years.