Sentence examples for very cursory from inspiring English sources

You studied it in school, but in a very cursory and uninteresting way, even through college.

"The guidance they were given was very cursory," she said of researchers.

"In terms of talking about the issues affecting young people, they did a very cursory job".

Not once does Damasio refer to it by this name, and he makes only very cursory reference to James's version of the theory.

With growing resistance to Pelosi's bid to return as speaker, it's not hard to draw very cursory conclusions based upon just that fact — and many will (perhaps not wrongly).

From the end of the second world war into the 1980s, of the few Nazi trials that took place in Germany, very many were thrown out or deemed insignificant by much of the German judiciary – which had itself undergone only a very cursory de-Nazification process.

At the very least, a cursory understanding of the working of software will help you judge the reliability, quality, and utility of the software in your life.

That's not to say his answers are not fascinating (they are) or cursory (they very much are not).

Members are enthusiastic but usually have only cursory training and very little sense of military discipline, often commuting to the front from their homes.

"In true Internet fashion, it's not based on very thorough research — essentially a cursory look at the Steve Jobs Wikipedia page," said Ryan Perez, who wrote and directed "iSteve".

Most people at the very least give resolutions a cursory thought at this time of the year even if they decide to not make any but some of us invest thought in them and formulate them carefully irrespective of the likelihood of success as a useful introspective exercise in itself.