| Lee could not escape that feeling of perfunctoriness in her twitter of talk. |
| Though she talked so sweetly there was, Karen felt it now, a perfunctoriness in Tante's remarks. |
| 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? |
| What is notable about the commentary in this instance is its utter perfunctoriness. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
