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Mr Connelly examines, rather cursorily, the evidence for this myth being, in part, a fable.
Most forms are somewhat thick walled, and are generally finished simply, even cursorily, with few extraneous details or surface treatments.
Typically of the 70s, though, McGrath is only cursorily interested in the sexual politics that troubled this younger generation.
This day is one that typically Americans pay sort of attention to cursorily in the most off-handed ways.
The topics, however, being of monumental proportions, can only be cursorily sketched in less than three hundred pages.
Looked at cursorily, it gives the impression of a piece of glass and its edges are sharp and can cut.
It would be worthwhile examining, cursorily, the roots of this ideology before dispensing with it for good.
I am not doing his argument complete justice, but this is in part because the bulk of his analysis is in his articles and book draft and is only cursorily summarized here.
As a result, methods like Data Envelopment Analysis and parametric methods will only be cursorily discussed.
Young people in the banlieues told me that colonial history is cursorily taught, and literature from former colonies hardly read.
The latter class was used to cursorily evaluate the phenology of births on the calving ground.
The adjacent rear courtyard contains above all man-sized ceramic figures which are only cursorily protected by a wooden roof.
Family, friendships, a first marriage are only cursorily covered.
As one rushee group leaves and one arrives, the current sisters will cursorily vote on the girls based on their scintillating five minute conversation.
It is a misconception widely held by people who have read Das Kapital only cursorily that Karl Marx believed wealth should be redistributed more evenly.
You can teach a good deal of theory, simulate decision making by cursorily looking at case material and learn about how businesses ought to be run.
The remainder of the treatise dealt cursorily with some of the topics more fully treated in the Human Nature and the Leviathan.
The media are hugely stacked against the opposition, which is rarely given even a cursorily polite airing by the all-state-run radio and television services.
Murky business Occupied land Let them eat yellowcake ReprintsAborigines were mentioned cursorily in the constitution, and only to exclude them from the new country built on their tribal lands.
These techniques are often not considered techniques in their own right and are typically only cursorily mentioned as preparatory steps in the development of integrity codes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I must cursorily observe, that the main circumstance which struck me in this detachment, was the extreme youth of the major part.
All these difficulties are well known, therefore I refer to them only cursorily.
Lanyard gathered them into a sheaf and scanned them cursorily, even with distaste.
The women looked at her, not curiously, or with compassion or disgust, but cursorily.
People who look too cursorily are the most often disappointed.
But the guts of the book are a well-researched history of US relations with India and Pakistan, beginning, cursorily, in the 16th century.
He who writes for cursory reading is wise if he writes cursorily.
The wide domain of science can be but cursorily touched upon.
His merits are cursorily noticed in the Quarterly Review, vol.
They told each other cursorily how they had spent the summer.
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