What constitutes laborious setup and halting, perfunctory world-building on so many other programs is usually a genuine pleasure on "Justified," which continues to earn its reputation as one of the most consistently well-crafted, witty and intelligent shows on TV.
Companies like Siemens, Miele, Philips, and Bosch for starters took this once-perfunctory world and turned it into a lesson on creativity.
But most of these glances at the wider world seem perfunctory.
All over the world, people give perfunctory greetings to one another; they raise their hands to strangers and pass by, hardly waiting to see if a hand is lifted in reply.
AMERICAN RESTORATION AUTHORITY "Together We'll Surprise the World!" I felt the perfunctory liberal chill at seeing entire races of human beings so summarily reduced and stereotyped but was also voyeuristically interested in seeing people's Credit rankings.
More disappointing is the perfunctory chapter on the humiliation of the world champion Garry Kasparov.
The people in Opie's show, with their cut-out hairstyles and perfunctory noses, all belong in the same world.
The match with Laryukov, who finished seventh in the world championships, was supposed to be perfunctory.
"Went down through Cataract Canyon last week, a five-day boat trip," was about as newsy as he got about his wilderness ramblings, and the world outside his door earned mostly perfunctory nods.
In this precarious world, star couples have adopted a perfunctory means of communicating news of their breakup: the press release.
It seemed unfair that the world No1 should leave the fray in such a perfunctory manner.
