Sentence examples for perfunctory praise from inspiring English sources
Then, having dispensed with the perfunctory praise, Mr. Obama launched into all the reasons not to vote for Mr. Romney.
After perfunctory praise for government research, he said again that too little is being done, officially, to fight AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it.
When the entertainment bigwig first addressed the press as he came on board in April he didn't have a whole lot to say beyond the perfunctory praise of Yahoo! management and the site's potential.
At the opening of Sen. Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearings for the post of Secretary of State on Tuesday, the ranking Republican on theSenate Foreign Relations Committee offered a bit of perfunctory praise for the former first lady.
But Mr. Cruz's statement went beyond the perfunctory, praising the policy aims and recent campaign promises of a man he once called a "pathological liar".
After a couple of perfunctory paragraphs praising his "leadership, integrity and resilience in guiding Citi through the crisis and positioning it well for the future," the board spent most of its statement talking up Pandit's successor, Michael Corbat, a twenty-year Citi veteran who has been running the bank's extensive operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
You are unlikely to hear the name of Theodore Roosevelt praised by Republicans or of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the Democrats, except in perfunctory terms (It was FDR, after all, who said he feared government by money as much as government by the mob).
Similarly Philip French in The Observer tempered his praise for the film by highlighting "some lazy repetition" and argued, "the badinage is often perfunctory and Bond is as usual captured too easily and too easily escapes".
Perfunctory ones at that.
