Sentence examples for the same perfunctory from inspiring English sources

As for J-Lo, she looks to be grinding through her set in the same perfunctory style in which she might submit to a colonic or inform a backing dancer she was marrying him.

She continued opening the mail and skimmed a few other resumes in the same perfunctory manner.

The same slightly perfunctory feeling carried over to "Someday I'll Find You," a waltz by Noël Coward.

Obituaries were perfunctory: most took the same tone as the General Advertiser, which brusquely reported that Kent had died "of a Mortification of his Bowels".A new show aims to bring "Kentissime"—a term coined by Walpole back to the limelight.

THE same may be said about a perfunctory kiss, he said, as did other experts, who suggested that Americans might try breaking their habit of assuming that the rest of the world does whatever Americans do.

The people in Opie's show, with their cut-out hairstyles and perfunctory noses, all belong in the same world.

But continued repetition of the same tapping at regular intervals elicits a briefer and more perfunctory withdrawal response.

He chose not to take it: the speech was perfunctory (just 20 minutes) and largely confined to the same five promises that he had campaigned on.

Perfunctory prayers at Mumbai's soulless municipal crematoria are just not the same.

Mr. Jahnson and Mr. DeGrazier have written the film as a series of nasty confrontations, perfunctory sex and shattering dreams, all directed by Mr. Collis with the same claustrophobic staging, shrill line readings and slack pacing.

Obama mostly made the same general appeal he was making in more diverse and liberal parts of the country, with a few perfunctory detours along the way.