Example Sentences

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But such cursoriness becomes flimsy when it’s stretched across multiple episodes.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2017

Boyd’s decision to go for panoramic sweep rather than detailed close-up often results in an unsatisfying cursoriness.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2015

Likewise, when she talks about "the Florida effect" or the "hard-easy effect" she does so with frustrating cursoriness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

When I saw it in 1999, I was struck by the thinness of its plot, the cursoriness of its characterisation and the blandness of the Elton John/Tim Rice musical numbers.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2011

Far more offensive, Napier was sure, than if Grindley had fallen upon the neat packets and loose papers with greedy curiosity, was the bored cursoriness, as it looked, of the inspection.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth