Sentence examples for perfunctory research from inspiring English sources

Given the volume of affidavits, even perfunctory research seems impossible.

I wish I'd been able to find space (and time) to venture further into Russia, France and Japan, nations with proud Shakespearian histories, and to do more than perfunctory research into South America.

The office did not conduct more than a perfunctory inquiry.

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.

Another case solved**.** Though it is possible that Nev and Max rely on more advanced technologies for their searches than what appears on the show, what does appear on camera is a limited, almost perfunctory approach to online research.

With the Bush administration, scientists complained it was leaving key advisory jobs unfilled and generally paying only perfunctory notice to the nation's research agenda.

"Most young adults who go on to college believe that the advice of their high school guidance counselors was inadequate and often impersonal and perfunctory," according to the study by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization.

And the level of research, well let's just say it's perfunctory] It's also the case however that "meta" has come to mean something grander, describing the process by which an artist creates a work that turns out to be within a work that, in turn, is within a work.