| What is notable about the commentary in this instance is its utter perfunctoriness. |
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| In the same way, the physical life of the book has an air not quite of perfunctoriness, but at least of the dressing-up box. |
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| This Polish-Thai gastronomic centaur signals either overinventiveness or a commendable resistance to good cooking's greatest foe, perfunctoriness. |
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| The other leaders of the democracy movement protested at the severity of the sentence and the perfunctoriness of the trial, but few openly supported his political demands. |
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| It is based closely, almost slavishly, on a watercolour of the same year, which shows similar signs of what we might describe as a kind of spare and even awkward... perfunctoriness? |
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| Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom. |
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| The characters never seem to come by their big moments of revelation honestly, and the sentimentality has the stickiness and perfunctoriness of a recently completed by-the-numbers oil painting. |
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| Not of delight The Derek Draper letters Cobwebs Umpire required Farm lessons Welcome to the cabinet ReprintsPart of the evidence is the sheer dull perfunctoriness of what now passes for cabinet meetings. |
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| No, not perfunctoriness then, but perhaps a fear of not being able to do the subject justice because it is still, 70-odd years on, too hot to touch. |
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| When at dusk she reached the Melchester station her husband was there to meet her, but in his perfunctoriness and her preoccupation they did not see each. |
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