Sentence examples for the perfunctory act from inspiring English sources

DJ Sets and mixes from Brett Johnson are always a treat, largely down to how they allow the listener to perform both the perfunctory act of looking discerning, whilst actually basking in some straight up house heaven.

He smiled for the camera but in truth, putting on a happy face on this day was another perfunctory act, like putting on sunblock.

And in the ultimately muddled and perfunctory second act of "Between Riverside and Crazy" Pops takes up with a beautiful Santeria practitioner named Church Lady (brilliantly and freely played by Liza Colón-Zayas), but the play is really centered on the idea of patriarchy: How do we father the fatherless?

There's the perfunctory.

The perfunctory health questions came first.

Now the perfunctory has become the victim of the grueling.

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

I smiled and gave the perfunctory head nod -- but it was a lying perfunctory head nod, if there is such a thing.

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.