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 Translation for 'perfunctory' from English to Russian
ADJ   perfunctory | more perfunctory | most perfunctory
SYNO casual | cursory | passing | ...
поверхностный {adj} [несерьёзный, неосновательный]perfunctory
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Usage Examples English
  • "The Guardian" found "Off Armageddon Reef" to have a predictable ending and called the character development "perfunctory", but applauded Weber's pacing and vision.
  • Gilbert fulfilled his contract with MGM with a perfunctory "B" picture – "Fast Workers" (1933) directed by Browning. He left the studio in 1933, terminating his $10,000 a week contract.
  • One of the production companies financing the film dissolved during filming, shutting production down early and resulting in some creative and perfunctory editing.
  • Reviewing the film in Variety, Tony Scott stated that "None of the three playlets breaks barriers, and the writing's perfunctory, but the productions are good, the casting interesting".
  • While praising Struss's photography and the performances of Chaney and Garland, film historian Bill Warren criticized the monster and assessed "The Alligator People" as a "decently crafted and intelligently made program SF-horror film, sadly let down by misconceived makeup and perfunctory ideas".

  • A picture window is a large fixed window in a wall, typically without glazing bars, or glazed with only perfunctory glazing bars (muntins) near the edge of the window.
  • London-based "Literary Review" gave Wolfe its 2004 Bad Sex in Fiction Award, an "honor" established "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel", for his writing in "I Am Charlotte Simmons".
  • President Hernández Martínez, who had himself toppled an elected government only weeks earlier, ordered Martí shot after a perfunctory hearing.
  • With the bout's result being announced as the perfunctory draw, Royce immediately engaged in winning celebrations, while Yoshida recovered from his knees with the opposite appearance.
  • 5/5 stars in a negative review in which he wrote that the director "fails to rise above plot's perfunctory soft core trappings in this unimaginatively told story of infatuation and jealousy".

  • "U-32" made a perfunctory attack, which failed.
  • Although the proceedings themselves were perfunctory, the outcome shaped the Elizabethan religious settlement.
  • One historical record that emerges is the perfunctory effectiveness of the surgery on the battlefield of Waterloo.
  • After that time, the exhibitions became more sporadic and perfunctory, and information regarding the results is not readily available.
  • The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine manager commented upon annual inspections of the enormous mining complex, declaring that the visits were "rather a perfunctory affair" which accomplished little.

  • Second, the governors in Khurasan, Tahirids, were factually independent; then the Saffarids from Sistan freed the eastern lands, but were replaced by independent Samanids, although they showed perfunctory deference to the Caliph.
  • While Trujillo was nominally a Roman Catholic, his devotion was limited to a perfunctory role in public affairs; he placed faith in local folk religion.
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