Sentence examples for perfunctory sense from inspiring English sources
More often, there is a perfunctory sense of preaching to the converted; after all, it's not as if busloads of plutocrats are likely to land on the Culture Project's doorstep.
Anyone with an even perfunctory sense of right and wrong already knew that Roman Polanski was a despicable little toad who gets off on preying on young girls and gives himself a pass for it because he's an artist; one more accusation thrown into the mix isn't going to alter that perception, possibly not even in court.
Still, through much of the set Mr. Legrand seemed to be warding off a sense of perfunctory proficiency: the downside, perhaps, of sticking to the songs that everybody wants to hear.
Ms. Wilde brings as much charm as she can to a perfunctory, underwritten role that makes little psychological sense.
It was a makeshift setting, but there was nothing stinting or perfunctory about his apology, and that made sense: there is nothing stinting or perfunctory about his golf game.
The karaoke memorial is a low-key, almost perfunctory affair whose dominant mood is a sad sense of shared community.
General conversation is now punctuated by a greater sense of sincerity that goes beyond the usual perfunctory greetings.
The murder is solved in a bit of remarkably perfunctory plotting, while Aaron and Krista play out the long-suppressed sense of entanglement that is Oates's true plot.
Although the sexual encounter that ensues is perfunctory for Babe, it is a rare pleasure for the young man, and as she finally senses this, Babe's affection for him takes on, for a while at least, a guilelessness that is equally rare for her.
A sense of the glory and the tragedy of the man can be gained even from Wolpert's somewhat perfunctory biography.
