Sentence examples for perfunctory style from inspiring English sources

As for J-Lo, she looks to be grinding through her set in the same perfunctory style in which she might submit to a colonic or inform a backing dancer she was marrying him.

He did, albeit in rather perfunctory manner.

Should he have mumbled in perfunctory fashion?

George Bush has pledged support, but in a perfunctory way.

She spoke in an unusually soft, almost perfunctory way.

It's not perfect – the storyline is a bit perfunctory, its free-form style can be illusory when it forces you to perform certain missions and it gets a bit repetitious in the latter stages.

This perfunctory nod to that style is like revisiting the sites of your drunkenness through a hungover fug the following night in a doomed attempt to recapture the magic.

But here, the lack of true dramatic content and the perfunctory characterisation abandons you to style alone.

Although Mr. Meredith's writing style is more perfunctory than last time, he conveys the delicate manipulations that led to the Anglo-Boer War.

The film begins with a perfunctory re-creation of the mob-style killing of Gus Boulis, an owner of offshore casinos, whose chain was taken over by Mr. Abramoff after his death.

"It was way beyond the perfunctory solicitations for support".