Sentence examples for perfunctory type from inspiring English sources
You need some nice perfunctory type who will do all the grunt work and follow directions.
Heidegger argued that to neglect our defining moods and actions, as the tradition of Western reason had done, was to fall into a type of inauthentic, perfunctory existence.
All of which background is pretty irrelevant, as from listening to 205 of them I have realised there are actually just two types of anthem: the perfunctory, lifeless ones, and those that make the effort to be different.
Critic Roger Ebert called her "the girl with the big joyful voice", although he thought her talent was wasted, while Rolling Stone said she "performed marvelously against type... in the otherwise perfunctory [film]." Hill also appeared in Steven Soderbergh's 1993 motion picture King of the Hill, in a minor but pivotal role as a 1930s gum-popping elevator operator.
Save a perfunctory, donate-to-Blanche-email signed on June 2 by Vice President Joseph Biden, the type of formal campaigning that team Obama rolled out prior to the first vote (with radio ads and robocalls) has been completely non-existent.
The return of the polished, fundamentally decent leading man, a type rarely encountered since the days of Cary Grant, coincides with a flurry of modern etiquette books, some perfunctory and earnest, others with a ribald edge.
It is obligatory in this type of play to have all arguments represented, but Ms. Diaz does a fine job of making her lines more than perfunctory.
"Rape is perfunctory," he says.
The Fosse homage appears perfunctory.
