perfunctory

The scenes with Johnny and his buddies are handled in a perfunctory manner that made it hard for me to invest in their plights or paths.

But Oprah Winfrey coaxed that out of her first, which offers a hint as to why Cooper's style resulted in a dialogue that didn't feel like a perfunctory performance.

During the roughly half hour of the session open to reporters, players ran through drills in a perfunctory manner.

He'll spend some time in Pennsylvania and Georgia and make some perfunctory stops in some of the other swing states just to keep it close enough to contest.

The selfie represents one of the North’s few visible interactions with the outside world during the Games, including a perfunctory press conference by the two table-tennis stars.