Sentence examples for perfunctory presentation from inspiring English sources

For most people, birthdays are an annual excuse to be a little egotistical and bask in the fawning embrace of friends, family and colleagues, whether during the perfunctory presentation of a Carvel cake in one's company's break room or trolling one's Facebook feed to see which estranged friend has posted well-wishes.

After about a half-hour of perfunctory presentations, Marshall Bratton, a high school government teacher, rose to chastise the commission.

They may have been influenced, he said, by old movies that showed quick military trials and perfunctory defense presentations.

Above this, there is an impersonal, perfunctory feel to the presentation, which is likely to be a legacy of the game's early-access beginnings – a little more polish would be welcome.

But neither was there anything perfunctory about the performances or presentation.

Schiff's approach to the Bach seemed strict, almost didactic, with surprisingly little interest in the music's beauty; his presentation of the opening theme was brisk to the point of seeming perfunctory, and later variations that could have been virtuosically dazzling or searchingly expressive never quite reached those levels.

Another context factor was related to the patient's non-verbal presentation: incessant coughing, or severe paleness were informative symptoms that did not require more than perfunctory additional questions, before the GP decided on further diagnostic and therapeutic actions.

A week before 9-11, I and the rest of the FBI's ethics instructors were mandated (as a result of an earlier public FBI scandal) to give a one hour PowerPoint presentation, a form of remedial training on "law enforcement ethics" which I accomplished in a fairly perfunctory way, just reading the slides.

SERVICE Perfunctory.

There's the perfunctory.

So things become disappointingly perfunctory.