Sentence examples for very perfunctory from inspiring English sources
There was not much camaraderie between the two with the US President giving his Russian counterpart a steely look and a very perfunctory handshake.
Lovano once told me how a piece based on a very perfunctory structure "takes total shape on its own" with the right players.
Some factors are not serious obstacles, such as the probable - but very perfunctory - examination of the acquisition by the competition authorities.
He liked to remind himself of a letter to Maya Angelou someone had found in the archives, telling her in a very perfunctory way that she could forget about a grant since she had no talent worthy of the Ford Foundation.
It was her tiny bit of luxury, a bit of beauty, in a very perfunctory life which was filled with functional things.
I think that anyone would look at it in a very perfunctory way, flip it over and look at the other side and say, "That's not fair!
They are a part of some new scene, which doesn't have a word yet, and which isn't necessarily as simply magical, revealing and ravishing as old time pop, and which fabricates the idea of magic, fun and excitement in ways that will seem very contrived, perfunctory and formulaic to older pop fans.
However, such participatory evaluations are currently very limited and perfunctory in the country, usually involving simply informing or placating the stakeholders.
Service at Full Kee is perfunctory but very fast.
"Abyss," which chronicles a perfunctory and not very satisfying affair between two real estate agents who meet at an awards dinner, ends with a horrifying accident at the Grand Canyon that will send shock waves through the survivor's family.
In the pilot Lamar persuades Rayna's milquetoast husband (Eric Close) to run for mayor, despite Rayna's support of another candidate, setting up a story arc that feels perfunctory and not very interesting, as if Ms. Khouri's heart weren't really in it.
