Sentence examples for their perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Their perfunctory offers to quit party posts on May 19th were refused by Congress sycophants.

They were unabashedly provocative, their perfunctory, gossamer-thin veils designed not modestly to conceal but to invite closer inspection of what lay underneath.

Again, you will seek bad art in vain, unless you count the crude-on-purpose banners by the California-born Chicago artist Cauleen Smith, with their perfunctory design and messages of laconic anguish.

No chairs turned until the song was over and they gave their perfunctory comments.

Asymmetry exhibits a degree of polish and refinement that was largely absent on Signals, their debut from last year, but the Cambridge quartet's knack for imbuing their fairly perfunctory alternative-rock bluster with a sense of tender honesty ensures that these songs sidestep the enervating wetness that so often mars music of such an unashamedly radio-friendly nature.

The volunteer teacher at the Ruskin School of Acting in Santa Monica contemplated two acting students doing their first perfunctory performance of a scene from "Macbeth". Two dozen tries later, David DeSimone was huddled in a chair, howling at the pain of existence; April Beyer was smiling malevolently, a woman obsessed.

She's a sometime prostitute, and they eventually share a bed, though the experience is perfunctory; their need and their avoidance of intimacy act as a prophylactic.

Dillinger's comrades, under their wide-brimmed hats, are almost interchangeable, so that their deaths feel perfunctory.

The next day she discovers that despite their dispassionate and perfunctory encounter, she is madly in love.

Many were accused of war crimes, and their trials were perfunctory if they were held at all.

Which isn't to say that Raindrops, The Flood or Hummingbird sound retro-hip; instead they are musically perfunctory, their lacklustre quality exacerbated by Cole's weakness as a balladeer and her (understandable) difficulty injecting feeling into a love song.