perfunctory

Watching the one Black family in the entire house’s history spend two minutes telling their son how to interact with the police comes off as perfunctory, particularly since the movie never deals with the history of restrictive covenants which, no doubt, would have prohibited Black families from even owning the house we’re seeing in the 1940s.

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.

In some ways, though, the response to Trump’s miracle seemed almost perfunctory.

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