Visible brushstrokes in the paintings fascinate: whistle-while-you-work, perfunctory filling-in that goes carefully fussy at the edges of shapes.
Sometimes sentences in her previous work were perfunctory; here she achieves a quiet precision.
How many times have you heard the expression "PR darling!", as if our work is perfunctory and can be executed without much thought?
defer.add img); If you have no choice but to talk to them (such as at work), be perfunctory and say only what needs to be said, all in a professional tone and manner.
It was relatively easy work, intimate yet perfunctory.
But the projection onto a bed-shaped screen of one of Kafka's best-known letters to Bauer, on the difficult prospect of being married to a man who will always be married to his work first, feels perfunctory.
He later recorded in his autobiography Kim's complaint that, "The North's filmmakers are just doing perfunctory work.
On May 9, as members of the Trinity Choir, they performed a noonday program at St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway for Bach at One, a new five-year series, with Julian Wachner conducting the choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra in all the Bach cantatas and other choral works as part of perfunctory services.
The quicksilver Owens contributes two rather precious new works — bagatelles, really — that feature perfunctory touches of paint on silk-screened reproductions of an advertisement for bird feeders and of a notebook page bearing a sarcastic fairy tale written out in a child's guileless hand.
When corporations monitor their supply chains (if they do at all), they do so through quick-hitting audits, perfunctory snapshots of working conditions taken over the course of a few hours or, at most, a couple of days, with little or no worker participation.
The real problem in the early episodes is that the psychological payoffs that are supposed to make the stories distinctive — the revelations, after various red herrings, of what drove the killers — feel as perfunctory as the detective work.
