Sentence examples for perfunctory way from inspiring English sources

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

She spoke in an unusually soft, almost perfunctory way.

"But now you can't just do it in a perfunctory way," he said.

Could its population be fed every day in anything more than the most perfunctory way?

Jowls, smile, posture, tunic, haircut — all nearly identical, right down to the dainty and perfunctory way he clapped his hands.

Margaret Beckett, the leader of the Commons, has been allowed to tinker here and there in her perfunctory way.

The two groups interacted in professional if perfunctory ways, but on Thursday, the authorities charged a technician, Raymond Clark III, with murdering one of the graduate researchers, Annie M. Le.

In response to this view, it is argued that, if the fallacies are taught in a non-perfunctory way which includes the explanations of why they are fallacies which normative standards they transgress then a course taught around the core fallacies can be effective in instilling good reasoning skills (Blair 1995).

You may wish it did not all happen in such a perfunctory, predictable way.

You can mix in one of three ways: not at all, in a perfunctory manner, or really fucking well.

Ultimately, disability is only described in the most perfunctory of ways.