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Novelty bands are ten a penny, as even the most cursory glance at the charts on either side of the Atlantic will show you.
And even a cursory knowledge of American history provides incontrovertible evidence of its falsehood.
Even the most cursory glance through the voluminous correspondence they generated reveals that the duty was performed conscientiously.
After a somewhat cursory examination, the Commission told the independents late in February that it was doing nothing.
At a cursory glance it is clear to see the potential of such a handsome space.
It moved to cross the road, and gave a cursory glance left, then right, then stepped out into oblivion.
I sailed through the checks with security staff giving the contents of my bag no more than a cursory glance.
He gave the crowded room a quick cursory glance, and spotted the uniforms in the corner.
Believe it or not, there wasn't a single piece worth more than a cursory glance.
A cursory glance at the headlines suggests he has more interviews to conduct before anybody starts to believe him.
This objection was very relevant, as even a cursory glance of the novel will prove.
They don't throw me even so much as the most cursory glance, before deciding that I'm too old for their club night.
Just a cursory glance at the brochure gives an idea of the immense undertaking this is.
But even the most cursory of glances at The Canterbury Tales will convince you that this is hardly new.
He kept off the core issues he usually loves to talk about and confined himself to cursory remarks.
Even a cursory look at the new science GCSE is enough to give anyone pause for thought.
A cursory listen reveals that the first version closely resembles Nashville's, from a musical standpoint.
As for his newest project, even a cursory glance at the property had his creative juices flowing.
Rodriguez lofted a long fly ball as Damon could only look up for a cursory farewell.
This necessitates somewhat cursory reading at times and I don't catch everything.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was no abstraction about Letitia, no cursory, unweighed chattering of things so obvious as to need no comment.
This duplicity was not motiveless, although, on a cursory view, its purpose may not be apparent.
It is not possible in a chapter, a book, or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.
Desmond made a cursory tour of the walls and passed on into the second room.
And though the examples of such vicissitudes are beyond number, nevertheless I will only enumerable a few in a cursory manner.
This beautiful instrument afforded to its maker, October 10, 1846, a cursory view of a Neptunian attendant.
From the cursory view here taken, it must clearly appear to have been an arduous part.
A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage.
An extremely cursory glance at this record was sufficient to discover to the young hunter the domestic state of the divine.
Monk, left alone with Athos, affected to speak to him on nothing but indifferent subjects while examining the vault in a cursory manner.
Thus, although in a very cursory and imperfect manner, I have endeavored to convey to you my conception of the Poetic Principle.
She accepted these terms, and slid off on the near side, though not till he had stolen a cursory kiss.
He who writes for cursory reading is wise if he writes cursorily.
To give more than a cursory description of our impressions is impossible.
Hastings stood up, his first, cursory examination concluded.
After a cursory examination he rose to his feet and pulled Mart up also.
This year, having made a cursory flick of the glossy mag predictions, I noticed that canvas is going unlaced.
Razumov, with the full sense of their unbounded power over all the lives in Russia, with cursory disdain, like two Olympians glancing at a worm.
In fact, having once satisfied themselves that no egress could have been made in this quarter, they would naturally bestow here a very cursory examination.
After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining room contained any effects which might belong to the Count.
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