Sentence examples for perfunctory version of from inspiring English sources

And Kevin Elyot has come up with a mildly camp, largely perfunctory version of Agatha Christie's classic of past sins catching up with their perpetrators, "And Then There Were None," at the Gielgud.

There were cameos in K'Naan's set too: by Nas, on a perfunctory but still galvanizing version of his classic "New York State of Mind," and Damian Marley, on one of K'Naan's grittier pieces, "I Come Prepared".

After one more perfunctory pass through the State Senate, which already passed a version of the measure, the bill repealing the act will head to Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican elected last year who has said he will sign it.

When books start with such perfunctory tricks, their authors are in effect playing a classic version of Monopoly.

Finally, St . Louis CountyD.A. Robert McCulloch emerged in his red power tie, brusque and arrogant, determined to get his brief and all-too-perfunctory words of concern for Brown's family to spin his version of the case -- and deliver the gut-punch that there would be no charges.

And then came an endless version of the Stylistics' "People Make the World Go Round," a protest tune worth celebrating, but probably not as bland mounting for long, perfunctory solos.

Giuliani made not even a perfunctory show of sympathy.

Many European leaders offered perfunctory notes of congratulations.

The plot is a perfunctory scramble of family-film conventions.

The words just kept coming, and so did the perfunctory rest of it.

Later, she offers perfunctory descriptions of the church's inner workings and recites tedious exchanges.