Sentence examples for seems perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Only one passage of this book seems perfunctory and strained.

Cramming them in just seems perfunctory and not relaxing at all.

Both are still dressed in everyday clothes; their lovemaking, too, seems perfunctory and routine.

A Lucio Fontana slash painting seems perfunctory; there must be more exciting ways to account for the way pictorial and actual space merged in the 1960s.

There is physical conflict, but it seems perfunctory: first, a murderous opening scrap between black and Confederate regiments, invested by Kaminski with the staccato desperation that he brought to "Saving Private Ryan," and then, much later, a corpse-littered battlescape.

Without any reference to the historical, political and religious divides outside the gates, the transposed setting seems perfunctory, suggesting either the need for much further reworking of the text, or that he should have done none at all.

might have seemed perfunctory at best.

Plot developments like this one can at times seem perfunctory.

For the most part, the trials seem perfunctory.

May I proceed?" Asking for permission may seem perfunctory, but it is psychologically significant.

And the confrontations between Melena and her father seem perfunctory and unidiomatic.