Sentence examples for through perfunctory from inspiring English sources

As both teams ran through perfunctory workouts Wednesday, the Yankees made the unsurprising announcement that Brett Gardner would lead off and Derek Jeter would bat second against the Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander, though Jeter will lead off against lefties.

Thousands of factories in those countries will no doubt continue to be reviewed through the perfunctory "check the box" audits.

"We go through the perfunctory things so much, putting on our suits and ties, and putting on our titles, that we don't get to talk about humanity and life.

On Wednesday evening the assembled talent — four singers (five, if you include Mr. Feinstein) and a jazz quartet — delivered full-bodied, emotionally connected performances that transcended the revue format, which too often elicits perfunctory run-throughs of material that demands engagement.

A perfunctory solo run-through of extracts from Nyman's best-known film music completed a comprehensive portrait of the loneliness of the long-distance pianist.

Mr. Leno breezed through his monologue with perfunctory, mostly comic mentions of the strike.

The music, a perfunctory stroll through the presets on a cheap keyboard, is similarly one-dimensional.

Of the 20 most daunting words, only two were used more than 30 times during the period covered (Jan . 1through July 14): anathema and perfunctory.

After one more perfunctory pass through the State Senate, which already passed a version of the measure, the bill repealing the act will head to Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican elected last year who has said he will sign it.

They can't have been improving it because it's a truly dire evening, a perfunctory trot through the biographical details of the life of the Irish-Catholic Ealing schoolgirl with the unique voice who grew up to have a string of hits, including You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and Son of a Preacher Man.

Mr. Maazel then led a perfunctory amble through Prokofiev's gentle, melodious, emotionally restrained Symphony No. 7. Prokofiev completed the work in 1952 (the year before he died), after a difficult period when his sixth symphony was denounced by the Soviet government for its "formalist perversions".