While Netflix's original movies generally have a minimal presence in theaters, the company says "Roma" (like Paul Greengrass' "22 July") will be released on more than 100 screens worldwide — not a blockbuster rollout, but not a perfunctory release, either.
Meanwhile, her pop career continues with her most perfunctory release yet, "Perfect Illusion".
Once back in the holding pen, Amber and I filled out the perfunctory release forms as the rest of our group showed up.
Iraq's television channels and other media continued to focus on recovery efforts, giving perfunctory treatment to the release of the Chilcot report.
These outreach efforts must go beyond perfunctory measures, like press releases, and instead generate impact by engaging victims and the public through a robust outreach and communications strategy.
There's a terrific documentary about one such case, the Detroit band Death whose sole album was released in a perfunctory edition in, I believe, 1975 and disappeared until a copy of it was digitised and made public on the internet.
Nevertheless, only a few days after the exuberance of her release, she sounded weary, perfunctory and even curt during the interview, saying, "I don't want to talk about it," when pressed about her feelings about her reunion with her son.
What Mr. Arafat had envisioned as triumphal appearances after his release from the siege drew only paltry, perfunctory crowds, and he canceled a planned speech at the Jenin refugee camp, scene of the fiercest fighting, apparently for fear of an angry crowd.
In this precarious world, star couples have adopted a perfunctory means of communicating news of their breakup: the press release.
The current Vandellas – "babies who weren't even born" when Reeves' best-loved songs were released – are barely audible, while the backing band are restrained to the point of perfunctory.
After a perfunctory visit to a local hospital, he said, he was taken to police headquarters where, after questioning, he was released some five hours after the incident occurred and returned to the hospital.
