Sentence examples for the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

There's the perfunctory.

The perfunctory health questions came first.

"It was way beyond the perfunctory solicitations for support".

Now the perfunctory has become the victim of the grueling.

He needed only the perfunctory confirmation of the association's members.

The perfunctory dessert list sticks to the basics.

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

The perfunctory sex scene is a problem of romantic comedy and of serious drama alike.

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

He issued the perfunctory apology to the franchise, his teammates and his fans.

More disappointing is the perfunctory chapter on the humiliation of the world champion Garry Kasparov.