- vices,
crimes or scandals, or of
exonerating the
guilty by
means of a
perfunctory investigation or
biased presentation of data with the
intention to improve...
- In sociology,
tokenism is the
social practice of
making a
perfunctory and
symbolic effort towards the
equitable inclusion of
members of a
minority group...
- "心驚膽戰" (Saam ging daam jin) 'Scary', on the 2002
compilation Faye Best Be
Perfunctory is the last
Cantonese album by
Chinese singer Faye Wong. In 2015, a fan...
- requirements,
conforms to a norm or
doctrine and
tends to be
performed perfunctorily or is
considered a formality. The term is used in
legal and business...
-
watchable [...] but the
truncated feel robs the film of
anything more than
perfunctory pleasures". Also in 1996, De Niro co-produced the crime-comedy Faithful...
-
owned land to
create nature preserves and
aided in long-range planning.
Perfunctory efforts were made to curb air pollution, but
little enforcement was undertaken...
- than
worth or aptitude, and the ****ction to
perform karma"
neither perfunctorily nor egotistically. In his Myth and Reality, D.D.
Kosambi argued that...
-
price of admission, but the
overall tone of his
performance is one of
perfunctory hyper-competence."
David Rooney of The
Hollywood Reporter noted Washington's...
- Out ****erting that "Peck's "crisis of conscience ... is
worked out in
perfunctory religious terms;" and TV
Guide stating that Peck's cowboy's "moment of...
- ****, or
whether it's disturbing, twisted, dark ****, or
disappointing perfunctory ****."
Martin was
fascinated by
medieval contrasts where knights venerated...
