Whereas most soldiers without major injuries will touch down on American soil and undergo a relatively impersonal and perfunctory post-deployment medical screening before returning to duty, many of the injured soldiers have already spent months being routinely examined, assessed and questioned about their well-being -- arguably making it easier to ask for help.
This is also still true of many cafes in Paris, but a good deal of them can also seem perfunctory, a social amenity like a post office.
Their perfunctory offers to quit party posts on May 19th were refused by Congress sycophants.
I am wary of mommy bloggers who do nothing than churn out perfunctory reviews of "great products," regurgitating product information companies post on their websites and assuring their followers that every product they promote is "great".
But the perfunctory epilogue, on the hackneyed theme of Soviet and post-Soviet leaders ruling essentially as tsars, comes across as an ill-judged attempt to demonstrate contemporary relevance.
On another assignment, I planned to write a perfunctory profile of a librarian who was retiring from his post.
When I receive my perfunctory declination to comment, I'll add a note to this post.
The post-Mahapadma genealogy of the Nanda dynasty is perfunctory in the Puranas, which mention only Sukalpa (Sahalya, Sumalya), while the Buddhist text Mahabodhivamsa enumerates eight names.
On the big menu board at the Lenny's around the corner from me, where I sometimes grab a perfunctory lunch, the calorie counts of every item are clearly posted.
A major reason for the low critical and academic reputation of post-Christie English crime fiction was the functional prose and perfunctory characterisation.
The office did not conduct more than a perfunctory inquiry.
