Throughout Trump's Black History Month presentation (see the video here) the president often rambled and limited his comments on Black History Month to a few perfunctory remarks read from notes ― but even then he managed to leave many observers befuddled.
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.
Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.
A1 Vice President Al Gore expressed perfunctory support for the China trade agreement, reading a statement in front of a labor group that opposes the China bill.
Vice President Al Gore voiced perfunctory support today for the China trade agreement, reading a statement in front of a labor group that opposes the China bill and is rallying in Washington against it.
There's a huge difference between the perfunctory plots sometimes used in pornography and the experience of immersing yourself in a story, characters and a considered environment – all those elements of the intellectual exchange involved in reading.
Although some of the other pop-up effects seem perfunctory (as though the artist said to himself, "What wild, crazy thing should I try next?"), Seibold's obsessive inclusion of excessive graphic minutiae throughout his tableaus is what makes his "Alice" totally engrossing and worth reading more than once.
This is wintry film-making with a wintry view of existence, and film's final discharge of emotional agony is, if not perfunctory exactly, then simply taken as read in dramatic terms.
Tippins's book is a cozy, gossipy read, punctuated by solid, if perfunctory, literary criticism.
At the moment, the brothers appear to be parentless, though not godless; at night, they read the Bible together in a perfunctory manner.
