Sentence examples for sort of perfunctory from inspiring English sources
Let's grab a beer!" moment, he was giving me this sort of perfunctory "How's it going" like we were coworkers who'd run into each other at Costco over the weekend before disappearing after saying he'd be right back.
"It has become kind of perfunctory," Mr. McCall said.
This sort of narrative detail is both perfunctory and discordant, like the laundry list of Magnolia's beauty regimens, though the topics — celebrities, personal care and fashion labels — are requisite stations of the cross in the chick-lit category, just as they are in women's magazines.
Tears fill Georges's eyes, and ours, too, as we realize that his great sadness as a parent is not that his son is straight — there are a couple of perfunctory jokes on that subject — but that his son is conventional, and sort of mean in his conventionality: hasn't Georges raised him not only to tolerate difference but to be oblivious of it?
There is no need for a battery of perfunctory procedures or ridiculously low-yield lab tests.
It seems like any attempt to offer a critique on the basis of the perfunctory story (by George and John Gatins) and workmanlike performances is sort of missing the forest for the trees.
At the top, there will be some perfunctory news reports on the SFO crash and the Egypt uprising, followed by some sort of conversation with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), for some reason.
After treating us to the sort of music only the very wealthy can churn out when all their hunger has vanished, they give us a flat, perfunctory rendition of "Hotel California".
At a Simon Wiesenthal commemoration last weekend, Mr Villaraigosa found the right sort of eloquence; his rival's speech was short and perfunctory and he left early.The mayor has the support of several trade unions and Senator Dianne Feinstein.
