Sentence examples for with the perfunctory from inspiring English sources

Then, having dispensed with the perfunctory praise, Mr. Obama launched into all the reasons not to vote for Mr. Romney.

Re "Another Israel-Gaza War?" (editorial, Nov. 15): There you go again, paying lip service to the Israeli people's basic human right, the right to survive and not be violently attacked, with the perfunctory line that no country should have to endure rocket attacks the way Israel has from Gaza.

Unfortunately, as the picture goes on, the haunting of Nash by figments of his troubled mind becomes a trifle simplistic and clashes with the perfunctory and sentimentalised course of his rehabilitation and acceptance by the academic world and the final accolade bestowed at Stockholm.

Fans stand in communion with the act onstage, who recognizes them with the perfunctory air of a rock star grabbing the mic and saying, "It is great to be in" – pauses, looks at paper on the back of the guitar – "Tampa!

That a Supreme Court nominee should be guaranteed lifetime employment with only the perfunctory scrutiny that has been deemed permissible by his political supporters seems unfair to the rest of us.

Every person you've done business with gets the perfunctory bi-monthly email from you.

We're stuck with a nondescript Mr Big, however, and the perfunctory action climaxes with a submarine-base shootout that screams "direct-to-DVD".

Hackles (mildly) raised, Alt-J resolved to write "the least Alt-J song ever", taking a "joke riff" Joe had been playing in rehearsals and fleshing it out with the most perfunctory chords and rhythm imaginable.

The interview began with the now perfunctory admissions of guilt and regret about cheating on Maria Shriver with their live-in housekeeper, but things didn't get interesting until Schwarzenegger and Stewart started dissecting the broke(n) state of California.

After the usual winner's collapse to the dusty red soil of Court Philippe Chatrier and the perfunctory handshakes with Soderling and the chair umpire, Nadal moved to his court-side chair, scrunched a towel to his face and sobbed.

In an effort to shield their still-secret products from prying eyes, automakers testing prototype models, often in the desert and at other remote locales, have long covered the grilles and headlamps with rubber, vinyl and tape — the perfunctory equivalent of masks and hats.