Whereas other candidates for public office make their promises with a certain perfunctoriness, Sarkozy looked his electors in the eye: “Everything I have spoken, I will perform,” he said fiercely. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is strange that crucial policy decisions are handled with such mediocrity and perfunctoriness. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)
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 other, and she went out of the station alone. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Hence her words “very nice,” “so charming,” were uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When she spoke there was no trace of the seductive in her voice, but rather a steely perfunctoriness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Memory has been emptied out by the long years abroad, and a certain perfunctoriness and staleness hangs over the scene. ❋ Hardwick, Elizabeth (1988)
Quickly he undid his breeches and climbed on her, ashamed of the perfunctoriness of it, but needing to do it and get it over with. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)
"Got it," he replied with equal perfunctoriness, and waded off into the mob. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1978)
The book as a whole, it must be said, gives an impression of slightness, even of perfunctoriness in some places; yet it does throw a light of an unexpected kind on Singer's achievements as a writer of fiction. ❋ Jacobson, Dan (1966)
There was an air about the service of perfunctoriness and lack of object, which made the service indefinite and aimless. ❋ Agnes Rush Burr (N/A)
The prayers, which the officiating priest recites in monotone, are in Pali, a form of Sanskrit; and if an air of perfunctoriness pervades his devotions, let it be remembered that every day, month after month, and year after year, he may be found chanting these same litanies, of the significance of which he has but the vaguest idea. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But, as time passed and as the nature of its organization and operation evolved, the perfunctoriness of its proclamations became more and more evident. ❋ Samuel Vaknin (N/A)
There was, however, a perfunctoriness in his manner 'as if the glory of exhibition had lost somewhat of its novelty, though he was still willing to oblige.' ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)
Other well-known songs are recorded in mutilated versions, and usually sung by professional singers with such a stale perfunctoriness that you seem to smell the whisky and cigarette smoke coming off the record. ❋ Unknown (1944)
He saw his second Channel crossing with a flesh wound in his thigh, when there seemed to his hyper-sensitive mind a faint perfunctoriness in her greeting. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
She held out her cheek to Seaton, and he kissed it with obvious perfunctoriness. ❋ John Cournos (1915)
