That's not a bad thing, but we would hope that their efforts turn out to be more than just a perfunctory stab at the problems.
The perfunctory sex scene is a problem of romantic comedy and of serious drama alike.
"Any evidence of being perfunctory or lacking sensitivity is a problem for him, not necessarily in terms of politics but in terms of gravitas".
The problem lies in the movie's perfunctory, by-the-numbers approach to the story and its characters.
Although these committees are often perfunctory, they can be called upon just to solve problems like yours.
And though there is some perfunctory talk about how long she will stay sighted, it's never the central problem.
As a result, his influence is probably overstated: only one of the 12 defence secretaries under whom he served makes more than a perfunctory reference to him in his memoirs, notes Michael Desch, a professor at the University of Notre Dame.The problem with the hagiographic treatment of Mr Marshall, say those outside his circle, is that it is hard to check the often classified facts.
(The league has a reality show — the perfunctory "Hard Knocks" — which is controlled almost entirely by NFL Films and has an annual casting problem, because most teams don't want anything to do with it).
Such bizarre notions, combined with a perfunctory assessment of the ways in which America can combat obesity, distract attention from the very real and alarming problems, discussed in this otherwise absorbing volume, of living large.
But problems immediately cropped up after the cabinet approved the draft law and, in what seemed to be a perfunctory step, it went to a council that was supposed to hone the language to be sure it complied with Iraqi legal conventions.
