How To Use Cursorily In A Sentence
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I am not doing his argument complete justice, but this is in part because the bulk of his analysis is in his articles and book draft and is only cursorily summarized here.
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Mr Connelly examines, rather cursorily, the evidence for this myth being, in part, a fable.
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The Stanilaus verdict is an unsatisfactory and cursorily written judgment - with ‘Emergency haste’ written all over it.
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In the fifth chapter, iridescent colors of two morpho butterflies and one insect are studied cursorily .
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Family, friendships, a first marriage are only cursorily covered.
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Her plotting is maddeningly episodic, her dialogue lumpen, her characters cursorily drawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cleaning woman would, surely, still be in residence, however cursorily she attended to her duties?
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CNN covered this very cursorily according to the transcript.
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The constant trouble into which the narrator gets himself seems contrived, which isn't helped by the fact that the setting, against which this action ought to be heightened, is depicted cursorily at best.
Genre Fiction
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Looked at cursorily, it gives the impression of a piece of glass and its edges are sharp and can cut.
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In that context the Time's article makes a muted aside to the administration's newly formed 'Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group' cursorily quoting Attorney General Holder, "Fraud or manipulation must not be allowed to prevent price decreases.
Raymond J. Learsy: The New York Times Pumps for Higher Oil/Gas Prices
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Registro, which I have cursorily noticed before, is a picturesque fazenda on the roadside, all constructed in a rude wooden style, and is a mule station.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Most forms are somewhat thick walled, and are generally finished simply, even cursorily, with few extraneous details or surface treatments.
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In preparing to write or speak upon a subject of which the details have been mastered, I gather, after some inquiry, that the usual method among persons who have the gift of fluency is to think cursorily on topics connected with it, until what I have called the antechamber is well filled with cognate ideas.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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The officer only cursorily looked through our things.
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How is the category ‘designer’ constituted significantly by the degree to which it must ignore or only cursorily recognize these outside disciplines?
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You can teach a good deal of theory, simulate decision making by cursorily looking at case material and learn about how businesses ought to be run.
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This has neglected the essential role of what is sometimes dismissed rather cursorily as "back office".
The vital building blocks of civil society
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Set sticking ceramic tile is technical very strong job, cannot be engaged in cursorily , must undertake strictly according to operating sequence.
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The topics, however, being of monumental proportions, can only be cursorily sketched in less than three hundred pages.
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Mr de Klerk said he had spoken "cursorily" to Mr Mandela and Mr Mandela had given him certain assurances about details "which convinces me we will be able to reach some kind of consensus on this issue".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It would be worthwhile examining, cursorily, the roots of this ideology before dispensing with it for good.
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Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.”
Book Review: Orange Sunshine by Nicholas Schou « A Progressive on the Prairie
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Both writers very often delve deep into their intellectual recesses and present in their novels and short stories images that, cursorily captured in our reading, hardly replicate real life.
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As one rushee group leaves and one arrives, the current sisters will cursorily vote on the girls based on their scintillating five minute conversation.
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They cannot afford to read vital material cursorily too.
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This day is one that typically Americans pay sort of attention to cursorily in the most off-handed ways.
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It is a misconception widely held by people who have read Das Kapital only cursorily that Karl Marx believed wealth should be redistributed more evenly.
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But really, don't waste any time on that link - just glance it over cursorily enough to glean the context in which to fully appreciate this brilliant, twinkling compilation of one-star Amazon reviews of the aforementioned best books ever.
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I live in my heart and in my head, sir -- not in this feeble carcass I cursorily inhabit.
CHAPTER XXI
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Anyone who has ever studied history, however cursorily, is familiar with the famous saying of Spanish philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
David Isenberg: Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better
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It was not surprising that the Cardiff study attracted little substantial coverage in the British press this week (though its headline claims were cursorily reported).
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he looked cursorily through the magazine
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Typically of the 70s, though, McGrath is only cursorily interested in the sexual politics that troubled this younger generation.
