Sentence examples for some of the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the lack of nourishment comes from the movie's pale recycling of "Eat Drink Man Woman," Ang Lee's domestic food fight of a movie, in which the menus served a crafty purpose: the growling of the audience's stomach drowned out some of the perfunctory conflicts in the storytelling.

As a result, one detects a touch of the perfunctory in the family aspect of her tale, as well as a disinclination toward serious introspection.

Instead of the perfunctory dunk or layup that you'd expect from basically anybody else, Williamson took flight and started twirling in the air.

In a tight T-shirt, lace-up pants and eyeliner, he managed to appear both smug and glum, his performance carrying an air of the perfunctory about it.

In this analysis, Weiner's failure to receive critical recognition is not an implicit judgment of, say, the perfunctory quality of some descriptive passages, or of the brittle mean-spiritedness that colors some character sketches.

The tradition exists most notably in the ceremonies of arranged marriages and the perfunctory visits some of Mr. Upadhyay's characters pay to the city's temples.

Although some of the other pop-up effects seem perfunctory (as though the artist said to himself, "What wild, crazy thing should I try next?"), Seibold's obsessive inclusion of excessive graphic minutiae throughout his tableaus is what makes his "Alice" totally engrossing and worth reading more than once.

There is a consensus among the medical community that the perfunctory use of radical therapies is leading to the widespread overtreatment of biologically indolent prostate cancers.

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

But despite the perfunctory presence of two detectives, this is not a paint-by-numbers thriller.

His early years are handled in the perfunctory style of most made-for-television biographies.