Sentence examples for this perfunctory from inspiring English sources

I'd like to apologise to Hull for this perfunctory treatment.

What else could Nest offer besides this perfunctory reassurance?

Many false confessors have been routinely Mirandized in this perfunctory manner.

With this perfunctory survey, Goldman concedes to Wieseltier the mining rights over the tradition.

Ms. Weingarten called for a new collaboration between schools and unions that would replace this "perfunctory waste of time".

This perfunctory nod to that style is like revisiting the sites of your drunkenness through a hungover fug the following night in a doomed attempt to recapture the magic.

This noisy, perfunctory reboot replaces rubber suits with CGI, but somehow manages to make its dreary predecessor seem thrillingly offbeat.

If he ultimately finds, in this somewhat perfunctory book, that true silence doesn't exist, it's not a surprise ending.

Despite the perfunctory nature of all this urgent humping, the romance leaks through in the obvious chemistry between Horgan and Delaney.

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

Companies like Siemens, Miele, Philips, and Bosch for starters took this once-perfunctory world and turned it into a lesson on creativity.